Blackhat USA 2009 – Day 1
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This is the first in a three-part-series on BlackHat USA 2009. (part 2)
A dark cloud is about to approach Las Vegas. The city of sin will soon get cold sweats at night when they realize what is approaching. At the end of July, Las Vegas will be pounced upon by hundreds of security professionals at the annual BlackHat convention.
BlackHat is the most well known computer and Internet security conference in the world. I always have a hard time deciding what talks to go see. I typically end up flagging way too many talks, and get burned out rather quickly. In addition, there are the security booze-hounds/gamblers that are very persuading in swaying you away from the talks.
This year, I thought I would try something different. I am listing the talks I want to see on this blog in an attempt to make sure I show up to them. We will see if this happens.
Day 1 – Wednesday – July 29th
[10:00am] Rod Beckstrom 
Beckstrom’s Law: A Model for Valuing Networks and Security
[11:15am] Nathan Hamiel , Shawn Moyer 
Weaponizing the Web: More Attacks on User-Generated Content
[1:45pm] Nitesh Dhanjani
Recoverable Advanced Metering Infrastructure / Psychotronica
[3:15pm] Mark Dowd , Ryan Smith , David Dewey
The Language of Trust: Exploiting Trust Relationships in Active Content
[4:45pm] Thomas H. Ptacek , David Goldsmith , Jeremy Rauch
Hacking Capitalism ‘09: Vulnerabilities In Markets And Trading Platforms
[6:00pm] The Pwnie Awards
