So long and thanks for all the phish: Red teams need to be smarter now The opening talk at BSides Manchester on Thursday examined how red team tactics are evolving beyond phishing to include a wider variety of methods. For example, internet-facing ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) endpoints can be abused to gain entry to corporate environments without needing to trick staff into opening …
"The conference closed with a plea that white-hat hackers need to go beyond being engineers to become teachers, diplomats and negotiators"
That's a very nice idea in principle, but they are greatly different skill sets. It would be a rare quality to find one excelling in one skillset, to be good at one of the others, Not impossible but not common.
There was a Security conference - important enough to get in the news - on right next door, and I didn't know! The next time BSides is on in Manchester, could you not mention it? I realised that HS2 isn't there yet, so El Reg wouldn't go, but there are some of us who might!
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