Black Hat USA 2015 was a significant milestone in the cybersecurity conference circuit, marking the 18th year of the event. It was held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas.
Another research track focused on low-level hardware and firmware. Researcher disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the x86 processor architecture affecting Intel chips released between 1997 and 2010. This flaw could be used to install deeply persistent rootkits, effectively giving an attacker permanent and nearly undetectable control over a compromised system. These talks underscored the reality that no layer of a modern system, from the hardware up, could be considered inherently secure. blackhat.2015
By 2015, the cloud was digesting the enterprise. Black Hat that year hammered home one painful truth: The firewall is dead. Black Hat USA 2015 was a significant milestone