Black Hat Events was the sponsor last month of EH-Net's Free Monthly Giveaway with a very flexible offering of a free pass for full conference admission to the Black Hat event of your choice between now and the end of 2013. As we mentioned, this one was going to be a little different as winning depended on particpation in the poll and not our normal participation on EH-Net. With that, we used the trusty services of random.org to help pick EH-Net member elwellj as our winner. Congrats!

For those unfamiliar, "The Black Hat Briefings are a series of highly technical information security conferences that bring together thought leaders from all facets of the infosec world – from the corporate and government sectors to academic and even underground researchers. The environment is strictly vendor-neutral and focused on the sharing of practical insights and timely, actionable knowledge. Black Hat remains the best and biggest event of its kind, unique in its ability to define tomorrow's information security landscape." It's the one trip I do everything I can to make every year, the week of Black Hat and DEFCON in Vegas. You should, too.