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CMP Acquires Black Hat

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the too-many-hats dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tradeshow and publishing behemoth CMP Media just acquired Black Hat for $10m.. It's ironic timing, because CMP also runs the Computer Security Institute tradeshow which wraps up in Washington DC today. There couldn't be a larger difference between a boring, institutional show like CSI and a small, independent event like Black Hat Briefings. Hopefully the corporate approach of CSI won't crush the life out of Black Hat."

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  1. Protection of larger corporate umbrella by Tontoman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Perhaps being part of a larger corporate community will come in handy next time Black Hat tries to expose another vulnerability. A few months back, Cisco got ticked off at the exposure they got courtesy of Black Hat. It wasn't until a few weeks ago that they released the fix. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/03/161 3226&tid=172&tid=218