Issues of security problems in embedded technologies appeared to weigh less on the minds of respondents to the survey than in years past, with only 5 percent of Black Hatters citing the topic as an area of great interest in 2007, compared to 21 percent only one year ago.
Matters of risk
Symantec said that "job function" and "curiosity" were the most frequently cited reasons expressed among respondents for researching the applications and technologies being highlighted at the conference.
Despite the increasing business focus, Black Hat continues to focus significantly on the makeup and machinations of the hacking community, and how it interacts with technology providers.
The ongoing tug-of-war between researchers and technology vendors over what price ethical hackers should be paid for isolating security flaws in commercial technologies -- and how those problems should be reported to the public -- was one of the more controversial issues being debated at the show.
According to the Symantec survey, 59 percent of attendees said that researchers should be paid at least a fair market rate for their discoveries. But 80 percent of the Black Hat attendees who participated in the study said that by simply publishing vulnerabilities publicly without first working with vendors, researchers put both those companies and end-users at serious risk.
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