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 33 - 40 Years of Phrack: Hacking, Zines and Digital Dissent [video] (www.youtube.com)
    6 points by mindcrime 3 days ago | discuss
  2. "We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33) [video] (www.youtube.com)
    4 points by pona-a 25 days ago | discuss
  3. Talk from DEF Con 33 (2025): Building a Malware Museum [video] (www.youtube.com)
    3 points by mikkohypponen 7 days ago | discuss
  4. DEF CON Talk: Building a Malware Museum [video] (www.youtube.com)
    2 points by mikkohypponen 29 days ago | 1 comments
  5. All You Need Is MCP – LLMs Solving a DEF Con CTF Finals Challenge (wilgibbs.com)
    1 points by notmine1337 4 days ago | discuss
  6. Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021) (www.begaydocrime.com)
    284 points by mystraline 24 days ago | 146 comments
  7. Mr.Robot: Elliot Alderson and his dad in the UsOpen (www.reddit.com)
    2 points by charlitos 5 days ago | 1 comments
  8. Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance (nickb.dev)
    101 points by fanf2 9 days ago | 89 comments
  9. Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app
    53 points by jessechoe10 3 days ago | 24 comments
  10. I ditched Docker for Podman (codesmash.dev)
    1117 points by codesmash 10 days ago | 653 comments
  11. The rules behing Rust functions (blog.cuongle.dev)
    53 points by gidellav 4 days ago | 15 comments
  12. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)
    267 points by whoishiring 14 days ago | 450 comments
  13. NPM debug and chalk packages compromised (www.aikido.dev)
    1361 points by universesquid 7 days ago | 754 comments
  14. I don't like curved displays (blog.danielh.cc)
    115 points by max__dev 6 days ago | 127 comments
  15. DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it (forum.defcon.org)
    568 points by Spodera over 1 year ago | 396 comments
  16. Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk (twitter.com)
    534 points by dmitrygr about 1 year ago | 177 comments
  17. CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon (twitter.com)
    405 points by teddyh about 1 year ago | 356 comments
  18. Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees (www.reviewjournal.com)
    322 points by jarsin about 1 year ago | 327 comments
  19. DEF CON's response to the badge controversy (old.reddit.com)
    274 points by mmastrac about 1 year ago | 268 comments
  20. Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023) (www.micahlerner.com)
    237 points by mlerner over 1 year ago | 95 comments
  21. Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement (www.entropicengineering.com)
    220 points by tillulen about 1 year ago | 158 comments
  22. When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army (jackpoulson.substack.com)
    213 points by OgsyedIE about 1 month ago | 298 comments
  23. DEF Con 32 – AMD Sinkclose Universal Ring-2 Privilege Escalation (Not Redacted) [pdf] (media.defcon.org)
    195 points by ruik about 1 year ago | 30 comments
  24. Volunteer DEF CON hackers dive into America's leaky water infrastructure (www.theregister.com)
    49 points by rntn 10 months ago | 25 comments
  25. DEFCON attendees having mandatory daily room searches by conference block hotels (twitter.com)
    43 points by intunderflow about 1 year ago | 4 comments
  26. DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills (www.theregister.com)
    37 points by pjmlp 8 months ago | 18 comments
  27. DEFCON found vulnerabilities in voting machines–but there's no time to fix them (www.politico.com)
    33 points by hammock about 1 year ago | 63 comments
  28. Defcon Response to Badge Issues (twitter.com)
    18 points by waihtis about 1 year ago | 1 comments
  29. DEF Con 19 – Charlie Miller – Battery Firmware Hacking [video] (www.youtube.com)
    16 points by shayanbahal 12 months ago | 1 comments
  30. Deadmau5 at Defcon, talking about his coding [video] (www.youtube.com)
    12 points by asix66 about 1 year ago | 2 comments
  31. Disenshittify or Die (Defcon Talk from Cory Doctorow) (pluralistic.net)
    10 points by po about 1 year ago | 2 comments
  32. DEF CON 2024 – Cory Doctorow – Disenshittify or die [video] (www.youtube.com)
    8 points by stakent 11 months ago | 1 comments
  33. Defcon badgemaker escorted off stage, kicked out for adding screen giving credit (twitter.com)
    6 points by djfergus about 1 year ago | 3 comments
  34. DEF CON hackers plug security holes in US water systems amid tsunami of threats (www.theregister.com)
    6 points by rntn about 1 month ago | discuss
  35. DEF CON hackers plug security holes in US water systems amid tsunami of threats (www.theregister.com)
    5 points by Brajeshwar about 1 month ago | discuss
  36. Chris Hadnagy vs. DefCon Dismissed with Prejudice [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)
    5 points by healsdata 4 months ago | discuss
  37. DEF CON hackers vs. our internet voting system (SIV.org): Report (hack.siv.org)
    4 points by arianasiv 4 months ago | 3 comments
  38. "We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33) [video] (www.youtube.com)
    4 points by namenumber about 1 month ago | discuss
  39. DEF Con 32 – Inside the FBI's Encrypted Phone Company 'Anom' – Joseph Cox [video] (www.youtube.com)
    4 points by jasoncartwright 11 months ago | discuss
  40. DEF Con 33 Top Talk Titles (www.yashthapliyal.com)
    3 points by yash1hi about 1 month ago | 1 comments
  41. DARPA announces $4M winner of AI code review competition at DEF CON (therecord.media)
    3 points by johnshades about 1 month ago | discuss
  42. Socket at Black Hat and DEF Con 2025 in Las Vegas (socket.dev)
    3 points by feross 2 months ago | discuss
  43. DEF CON 30 – Tracking Military Ghost Helicopters over Washington DC (www.youtube.com)
    3 points by Stevvo 8 months ago | discuss
  44. DEF CON 32 – Why are you still using my server for your internet access [video] (www.youtube.com)
    3 points by ericdiao 9 months ago | discuss