Three journalists working for a French security magazine
were expelled from theBlack Hat security conferenceafter
allegedly hacking into the press-room computer
network.
The journalists work for
Global Security Mag,
a media sponsor of the conference in Las Vegas.
Black Hat said the three were ordered to leave the conference
and barred from Defcon, a sister security conference.
One of the journalists, Marc Brami, director of the magazine,
told
CNET News the incident was "a joke" but he was not responsible
for it.
"It is not good for my magazine, but also it is not so good for
Black Hat," he said. "Maybe they lost a good supporter. For us, it
was like a joke."
The journalists were seen huddled over a table in the two press
rooms and were said to have obtained usernames and passwords of
journalists at the conference.
CNET News was one of the alleged victims, although it said the
username and password displayed in a list were inaccurate. But a
journalist from another magazine confirmed that the username and
password he used had been exposed in the list.