Black Hat USA 2009 Schedule is now online.
Briefings USA 2009 selected speakers are now live.
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Online Registration for USA 09 is now open. Regular rates are now in effect.
Black Hat USA 2009 Training Classes are online now. Please take a look. If you already know what class you want to take, you can proceed directly to the Training signup page.
Hotel & Venue information for Black Hat USA 2009 Briefings and Training. In the past, our block has been sold out 6 weeks in advance of the showmake your reservations early.

The topic of Lord Erroll's keynote presentation was “Privacy Protecting People or People Protecting Privacy”
You can read his full biography on our Black Hat Europe 09 speaker page.
You can find the Black Hat Europe presentations and whitepapers online now.
You can find the Black Hat Europe Briefings Schedule online now.
Black Hat Training Europe 2009 information is online now — and you can find the training schedule online as well.
Please take a moment to visit our sponsors for the Europe 2009 event.
Black Hat DC 2009 is in the books. Strong trainings, excellent Briefings presentations and a great performance from our staff and volunteers made this a very successful event. We're looking forward to doing it again in Amsterdam in two months' time. For those that couldn't be here with us, we've assembled a partial list of Black Hat DC 2009 press coverage to give you the flavor of the event. The page will grow as more stories roll in, so feel free to check back.
Black Hat returned to Tokyo for another
Black Hat Japan in October 2008. We brought another strong lineup of
speakers and trainers and the best lineup of technical security
presentations available in Japan. Presentations from the show are online here.
This August, The Black Hat Briefings returned to the venerable Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino for another installment of the premier North American technical information security conference.
The Black Hat Briefings have become the biggest and the most important security conference series in the world by sticking to our core value: serving the information security community by delivering timely, actionable security information in a friendly, vendor-neutral environment.
This Webcast will preview some of the hottest topics being presented at Black Hat USA 2009. Registered participants of the Webcast will receive a code that can be redeemed for $250 off the price of registration for the USA 2009 Black Hat Briefings.
Posted: Tue Jun 16 15:15:01 2009The Pwnie Awards will return for the third consecutive year to the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas. The award ceremony will take place during the Black Hat Reception on July 29, 2009 and the Pwnie organizers promise an extravagant show. Read More
Posted: Tue Jun 16 08:45:21 2009Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano appointed Jeff Moss, founder of Black Hat and DEFCON, to the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Jeff Moss will provide recommendations directly to Secretary Napolitano on Homeland Security Issues Read More
Posted: Mon Jun 08 23:15:44 2009The Briefings schedule is now available.
Posted: Sun Jun 07 23:11:13 2009Speaker selections have been completed for Black Hat USA 2009. The speaking schedule will be published on Monday, June 8
Posted: Thu Jun 04 7:04:07 2009Join Black Hat Founder and Director Jeff Moss and several of this year’s USA speakers for a Webcast previewing some of the hottest topics being presented at Black Hat USA 2009. Registered participants of the Webcast will receive a code that can be redeemed for $250 off the price of registration for the USA 2009 Black Hat Briefings.
Posted: Tue Jun 02 9:20:39 2009Take advantage of discounted rates to the USA 2009 Briefings and Training if you register by June 1. We are offering over 50 unique Training courses and 70+ Briefings sessions this year.
Posted: Thur May 28 7:18:29 2009World renown SensePost will be offering two online sessions of this self-paced introductory course for technical people with no previous experience in the world of hacking. Register by June 1 to get the best pricing.
Posted: Weds May 27 7:20:31 2009We have three new course offerings: Intercepting Secure Communications by Moxie Marlinspike, Mac Hacking Class by Vincenzo Iozzo, and Attacking Hardware: Unsecuring [once] Secure Devices by Christopher Tarnovsky. Register by June 1 to get the best pricing. A complete listing of all our course offerings is available on our USA 2009 Training page.
Posted: Tue May 26 15:15:10 2009The response was great the first time we did this, so we'll be giving away another Black Hat Track Jacket to a randomly selected Twitter follower on Monday. (Here's a picture of the jacket.) If you're not already following us, you can join us at https://twitter.com/blackhatevents.
We'll announce the winner on Twitter Monday at 3pm PDT. If you've got friends you think would like a Black Hat Track Jacket, spread the word.