The 16th annual Black Hat security conference will soon invade Las Vegas. Black Hat and DEFCON are designed to educate and inform–not train the next generation of cyber thugs. The RSA Security Conference held in San Francisco each year is the more “professional” security conference. Don’t install any patches or updates while you’re there, and leave your laptop, mobile phone, and tablet at home. Use a VPN on a laptop to be safe, use a prepaid mobile phone with your SIM card in it.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2137108/how-to-avoid-getting-pwn3d-at-black-hat.html