Two more talks have been pulled from this week’s Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
According to Reuters, these were on breaking into home-alarm systems, while the other was on a sophisticated Russian espionage campaign known as “Snake.” The withdrawals follow the cancellation late last month of a highly anticipated talk on how to identify users of the online privacy service Tor.
Black Hat said Logan Lamb, an employee with Oakridge National Laboratory, had pulled a talk dubbed: “Home insecurity: no alarms, false alarms and sigint” while BAE Systems PLC researcher Sergei Shevchenko was slated to deliver a talk on “Dissecting Snake” on Wednesday. BAE spokeswoman Natasha Davies said her company had pulled the talk, and it will publish a report in September.
