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 ...

LAS VEGAS—Famed hacker convention DEF CON returns to Las Vegas this year at Caesars Forum as it celebrates its 30th year running. Normally attracting thousands to tens of thousands of visitors, the ...

To say that 2020 was a transformative year would be something of an understatement. The COVID-19 pandemic completely changed the way we worked, learned, and lived. Despite all those jokes about how ...

For years I’ve looked forward to seeing each new unofficial hardware badge that comes out of the #Badgelife powerhouse known as AND!XOR. A mix of new and interesting components, alternate-reality game ...

OpenSSF's Christopher “CRob” Robinson discusses highlights open source discussions around AI security, SBOM adoption and ...

A series of tweets sent me and other Def Con attendees scrambling to get to the Caesers Palace pool as quickly as possible. I cut short a conversation, shoved my gear in my bag and ran out of the ...

Last month, security researchers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller made headlines when they remotely hacked a Jeep Cherokee, killing the transmission as a Wired reporter drove at high-speed down the ...

Thousands of hackers are gathered this weekend for the Def Con conference in Las Vegas. On their list of things to hack: voting equipment. One of the largest gatherings of hackers in the world is ...

DEF CON wraps up its 23rd year in Las Vegas today, and the first wave of news reports show the notorious hacker conference's non-technical and sensational talks grabbing the first round of headlines.

Artist, Human and Press badges from Def Con 24. Googly eyes added by writer. Three days before the 24th annual Def Con hacker event, badge designer and builder 1o57 (aka Ryan Clarke) had a problem.

Last year, hackers penetrated every single voting machine they tried to breach. At DEF CON, one of the world’s largest hacking conferences, hackers clad in black hoodies made headlines last year when ...