Last week, the 21st annual DEF CON hacker conference opened its doors to over 15,000 attendees - and when registration ran out of badges, they issued paper badges to the overflow crowd. In a course ...
Raucous applause filled the the large convention room inside Las Vegas's Paris casino: the government had arrived. Seated behind a table at the annual DEF CON conference in Las Vegas was Congressman ...
The fallout from DEF CON organizers’ decision to ask the feds to stay away from this year’s event has been mixed–and predictable. For over two decades DEF CON has been an open nexus of hacker culture, ...
Now in its 21st year, DEF CON is America's flagship hacker conference - a place where hackers, security researchers, corporate recruiters, digital frontier legal eagles and law enforcement have ...
Two weeks ago, news broke of an incredible abuse of power from the National Security Agency. A DEF CON talk was cancelled, and speculation raged that information was not free. This was the ProxyHam, a ...
To the delight of everyone, this year’s official DEF CON badge is an electronic badge chock full of entertainment. Of course there is blinky, the board is artistic, and everyone hopefully maybe gets ...
Bug submission program uses the SecureDrop platform to ensure anonymity. Hacking conference organizer DEF CON Communications said it plans to roll out a global anonymous bug submission platform based ...
Def Con recently celebrated its 20th birthday, and to mark the occasion, the famed hacker conference welcomed something it had strictly policed in prior years: A film crew. This year, Def Con creator ...