Black Hat to launch first regional summit In Brazil

SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Black Hat, the world's leading family of information security events, announced the Black Hat Regional Summit to take place in Brazil this November.

This two-day event will be co-located with IT Forum Expo, providing attendees with two parallel tracks of high intensity content on the latest security research, trends and industry challenges. Both events will take place November 26-27, 2013, at the Transamerica Expo Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The Black Hat Regional Summit in Sao Paulo will introduce a mix of local in-region experts and researchers from around the globe for two full days of Briefings and Workshops. The sessions will provide candid insight and education for IT security professionals and enthusiasts of all levels. Some of the highlights of the upcoming Black Hat Regional Summit include:

Carna Botnet: Telnet's Threat to the World (and Brazil): Parth Shukla of the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) will offer attendees an exclusive look into how the first-ever internet census was conducted, the devices that were compromised for the Carna Botnet, and analysis of the data that was gathered - never before shared publically.

Defeating WhatsApp's Lack of Privacy: Jaime Sanchez will present a novel way to add a new layer of security and privacy to the popular chat app, WhatsApp. By anonymizing and encrypting conversations, no one will transmit data to the app directly, keeping your conversations truly off the record.

A Practical Attack Against MDM Solutions: Ohad Bobrov will expose how mobile cyber-espionage attacks are carried out through a novel proof-of-concept attack that bypasses traditional defenses including Mobile Device Management (MDM) features such as encryption.