Black Hat 2026: From Rogue AI to Roblox Privacy, the Most Terrifying Warnings Coming to Vegas
Each year, security researchers and white hat hackers converge in Las Vegas for the Black Hat conference to share new discoveries and timely warnings about the tech we use each day. The conference begins with three days of cybersecurity training, including data breach response simulations, a bootcamp for corporate security leaders, and a hands-on demonstration of how to build and sideload malicious browser extensions (for research purposes, of course). After the training is over, the Black Hat briefings begin, bringing light to never-before-seen vulnerabilities, inventive defense tactics, and interesting research.PCMag's security team will be on the ground in Vegas to attend the sessions that look the most critical, chilling, or...maybe just fun.
- ▪Each year, security researchers and white hat hackers converge in Las Vegas for the Black Hat conference to share new discoveries and timely warnings about the tech we use each day.
- ▪The conference begins with three days of cybersecurity training, including data breach response simulations, a bootcamp for corporate security leaders, and a hands-on demonstration of how to build and sideload malicious browser extensions (
- ▪After the training is over, the Black Hat briefings begin, bringing light to never-before-seen vulnerabilities, inventive defense tactics, and interesting research.PCMag's security team will be on the ground in Vegas to attend the sessions
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Each year, security researchers and white hat hackers converge in Las Vegas for the Black Hat conference to share new discoveries and timely warnings about the tech we use each day. The conference begins with three days of cybersecurity training, including data breach response simulations, a bootcamp for corporate security leaders, and a hands-on demonstration of how to build and sideload malicious browser extensions (for research purposes, of course). After the training is over, the Black Hat briefings begin, bringing light to never-before-seen vulnerabilities, inventive defense tactics, and interesting research.PCMag's security team will be on the ground in Vegas to attend the sessions that look the most critical, chilling, or...maybe just fun.
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