Black Hat and Def Con 2020 go into ‘safe mode,’ offering a week of virtual trainings, briefings

The annual Black Hat USA mega-conference has launched as a virtual event with training sessions already underway, and moves into keynotes and briefings Wednesday with an opening speech by researcher Matt Blaze on election security, and on Thursday with a keynote by Renee DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory on “Hacking Public Opinion.”

Both days feature a full agenda of online briefings by cyber professionals, including Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs, who speaks Wednesday on...