As the pandemic hastens a cyberpunk future, hackers put democracy at risk

One year after 20,000 cybersecurity professionals gathered in Las Vegas for Black Hat USA, no one traveled to the city this time, convention center hallways were dark and the world felt more perilous than ever before. Reflecting on a dystopian future described in a subgenre of science fiction known as “cyberpunk” in the 1980s, a somber Jeff Moss, Black Hat’s founder, opened this year’s all-digital event by capturing the state of computer security in a newly altered world.

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