Bishop Fox’s Christie Terrill talks to us about IoT security and other trends at Black Hat 2018 this month.

The Threatpost team debriefs on the top news and topics from last week’s Black Hat and DEF CON conferences.

Vulnerabilities in healthcare devices and hospital systems are leading to growing concerns in the infosec community about patient safety.

A flaw in Cortana allowed researchers to take over a locked Windows machine and execute arbitrary code.

In mixed-design radio chips the processor’s activity leaks into the analog portion of the chip – and is broadcast as output.

At Black Hat, Google’s Parisa Tabriz discussed how to navigate the complex security environment with long-term thinking and a policy of open collaboration.

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals preview Black Hat USA and DEF CON 2018, which both take place this week in Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS – Security researchers at Black Hat USA described a proof-of-concept worm that targets weaknesses within automated industrial control systems used to manage critical infrastructure and manufacturing. The worm, according to OpenSource Security, has the capability to autonomously search for and spread between networked programmable logic controllers (PLCs). PLC-Blaster was designed to target Siemens SIMATIC...