Hackernews posts about DEF CON

DEF CON is an annual computer security conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada, that brings together hackers and cybersecurity experts to share knowledge, showcase innovative technologies, and engage in friendly competition through various hacking challenges.

  1. DEF Con 32 – AMD Sinkclose Universal Ring-2 Privilege Escalation (Not Redacted) [pdf] (media.defcon.org)
    195 points by ruik 12 days ago | 30 comments
  2. DEF Con 19 – Charlie Miller – Battery Firmware Hacking [video] (www.youtube.com)
    15 points by shayanbahal 3 days ago | 1 comments
  3. Eradicating Hep-C with Bio-Terrorism (Defcon 32) (www.youtube.com)
    3 points by mouse_ 12 days ago | discuss
  4. DEF Con Quantum CTF 2024: Walkthrough (charonv.net)
    3 points by swernli 16 days ago | discuss
  5. You Won't Believe What This Badge Can Do DefCon 32 Badge Life Feat. Free WiLi [video] (www.youtube.com)
    1 points by psvisualdesign 5 days ago | discuss
  6. Eradicating Hep-C with Bio-Terrorism (Defcon 32) [video] (www.youtube.com)
    1 points by pabs3 11 days ago | discuss
  7. DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it (forum.defcon.org)
    568 points by Spodera 8 months ago | 396 comments
  8. Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk (twitter.com)
    534 points by dmitrygr about 1 month ago | 177 comments
  9. CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon (twitter.com)
    405 points by teddyh about 1 month ago | 356 comments
  10. Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees (www.reviewjournal.com)
    322 points by jarsin about 1 month ago | 327 comments
  11. DEF CON's response to the badge controversy (old.reddit.com)
    274 points by mmastrac about 1 month ago | 268 comments
  12. Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023) (www.micahlerner.com)
    237 points by mlerner 7 months ago | 95 comments
  13. Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement (www.entropicengineering.com)
    220 points by tillulen about 1 month ago | 158 comments
  14. Legions of DEF CON hackers will attack generative AI models (venturebeat.com)
    189 points by sebg about 1 year ago | 88 comments
  15. Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention (www.theregister.com)
    147 points by rntn about 1 year ago | 46 comments
  16. DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs (www.theregister.com)
    106 points by magoghm over 1 year ago | 12 comments
  17. Uncle Sam wants DEF CON hackers to pwn this Moonlighter satellite in space (www.theregister.com)
    57 points by LinuxBender over 1 year ago | 14 comments
  18. DEFCON attendees having mandatory daily room searches by conference block hotels (twitter.com)
    43 points by intunderflow about 1 month ago | 4 comments
  19. DEFCON found vulnerabilities in voting machines–but there's no time to fix them (www.politico.com)
    33 points by hammock about 1 month ago | 63 comments
  20. Cory Doctorow talks fighting Enshittification at DEF CON 31 (www.youtube.com)
    20 points by lapphi about 1 year ago | 2 comments
  21. Defcon Response to Badge Issues (twitter.com)
    18 points by waihtis about 1 month ago | 1 comments
  22. Deadmau5 at Defcon, talking about his coding [video] (www.youtube.com)
    12 points by asix66 about 1 month ago | 2 comments
  23. DEF CON CTF Participant received a mystery letter [thread] (twitter.com)
    12 points by FinnKuhn over 1 year ago | discuss
  24. Disenshittify or Die (Defcon Talk from Cory Doctorow) (pluralistic.net)
    10 points by po about 1 month ago | 2 comments
  25. Thousands of hackers are throwing world's cyber arsenal at AI models at DEF CON (www.axios.com)
    10 points by momirlan about 1 year ago | 1 comments
  26. Defcon badgemaker escorted off stage, kicked out for adding screen giving credit (twitter.com)
    6 points by djfergus about 1 month ago | 3 comments
  27. Veilid, a New Decentralized Application Framework Unveiled at Defcon 31 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    5 points by sneakerblack about 1 year ago | 1 comments
  28. Defcon: Bypass macOS Background Persistence Security with Sigkill [video] (www.youtube.com)
    5 points by photoGrant about 1 year ago | discuss
  29. Defcon 31 – You can track the police like an AirTag (blog.dataparty.xyz)
    4 points by nullagent about 1 year ago | 4 comments
  30. I hacked DEFCON – from 2023's winner (www.futureofproduct.ai)
    4 points by maxplayerzero about 1 year ago | 3 comments
  31. Defcon: Preventing Overload with Graceful Feature Degradation (www.micahlerner.com)
    4 points by mlerner about 1 year ago | 1 comments
  32. A Different Uber Post Mortem – Joe Sullivan, Defcon 31 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    4 points by happy-dude about 1 year ago | discuss
  33. Researcher says they were behind iPhone popups at Def Con (techcrunch.com)
    4 points by transpute about 1 year ago | discuss
  34. Defcon: Preventing Overload with Graceful Feature Degradation (www.micahlerner.com)
    4 points by mlerner about 1 year ago | discuss
  35. Feds Enlist Hackers to Stress Test AI Models from Google, OpenAI at Defcon (www.pcmag.com)
    4 points by edreib over 1 year ago | discuss
  36. DEF CON 19 Bitcoin talk by Skunkworks about mining when it was $8 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    3 points by nodesocket about 1 year ago | discuss