The Black Hat Conference (#Blackhat) has established itself as one of the technology industry’s leading events for the security elite.  More than just a hacker conference, many of this year’s presentations were equally as eye-opening for the C-Suite, especially in terms of raising awareness of lesser-known enterprise vulnerabilities that pose significant risk.

While Cyber-Ark didn’t attend the event, many of our customers and partners did, so we paid close attention to the buzz surrounding the event.  From SCADA systems and exploding batteries to Shady RAT, following are some of our favorite tweets that captured top stories from the event.

@buzzblog: New post: Scariest Black Hat story so far: Power plants at risk networkworld.com/community/blog… #Siemens

@KimZetter: Hardcoded Password and Other Security Holes Found in Siemens Control Systems – http://t.co/39ss0UR

@josphmenn: My reg req’d story based on scary #BlackHat presentations, etc: Utilities warned that many PLCs open to Internet hacks. http://t.co/1k7G1U8

@mathewjschwartz: China Suspected Of Shady RAT Attacks — InformationWeek #li #infosec #blackhat http://t.co/xfdnbhx

@SCMagazine: Black Hat: Insulin pumps can be hacked http://dlvr.it/dvG6c

@zdnetaustralia: A security threat has emerged and it comes from an unexpected source: laptop batteries http://bit.ly/r30tkR

@ryanarine: Microsoft’s BlueHat Prize: A new twist on security research incentives http://zd.net/q84Sf0

@CNNTech: Hacker shuts down Apple MacBook battery — and can do so remotely: http://t.co/QLMnAu7 by @jdsutter at #blackhat

And one of the event wrap-ups worth reading from @SecurityWeek: Black Hat Wrap Up: What Created the Most Buzz? bit.ly/p8qSZI #blackhat #defcon #infosec

What are your picks for top stories coming out of Black Hat?