Sunday, July 31, 2011

Unlimited Online Storage Defined – Black Hat USA 2011

Unlimited Online Storage Defined

The pitch - *UNLIMITED storage. The asterisk - *Subject to fair use policy. The details - "In the event you chose an unlimited storage option for the bbb Paid Services, your usage of the Services if in excess of 500GB may at bbb’s sole discretion be subject to additional usage fees, as referenced in f) above and in this paragraph". Unlimited, and fair use, appears to be 500GB. As a reference point, 500GB is the hard drive size of a number of laptops. Online storage service providers such as Box.net, dropbox, carbonite, livkive, mozy, and sugarsync must be pleased that that has been cleared up. Note, each vendor has their own plans with various storage amounts. Next week – infinite and pi brought to closure.

Black Hat USA 2011


The Black Hat conference runs in Las Vegas August 1 through 4 at Caesars Palace. Potential blogs may be published during the event. Over 5000 attendees will hear a number of speakers. There are nine training tracks. Over 80 vendors will be part of the tradeshow. Sponsors include internet security providers Norman, Symantec, McAfee, and GFI. Qualys is the diamond sponsor. https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-11/bh-us-11-sponsors.html There may be some IPO (initial public offering) candidates in there.

About Black Hat


The Black Hat Briefings remains the biggest and the most important technical security conference series in the world by remaining true to our core value: serving the information security community by delivering timely, actionable security information in a friendly, vendor-neutral environment.
https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-11/bh-us-11-home.html

Pwnie Awards


The Pwnie Awards is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the achievements and failures of security researchers and the security community. The awards are given out once a year. The fifth annual ceremony will take place on August 3rd, during Black Hat USA. http://pwnies.com/about/

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