The Def Con hacking conference banned hackers Pablos Holman and Vincenzo Iozzo, as well as former MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito, from attending the annual conference after their reported ...

Def Con, one of the largest and longest-running hacking conferences in the world, announced on Wednesday that three people linked to Jeffrey Epstein are no longer allowed to attend. The conference ...

CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas has graciously accepted a trophy for the “most epic fail.” The security software boss received the Pwnie award in person at the annual DEF CON hackers conference ...

PPP joined forces with CMU alumnus and University of British Columbia Professor Robert Xiao's team, Maple Bacon, and hackers from CMU Alum startup Theori.io (The Duck), playing under the name Maple ...

The Franklin project, which launched at DEF CON in 2024, enlists hackers to secure critical infrastructure, and 350 people signed up that year to donate their time and talent to securing water ...

A security researcher caused something of a kerfuffle during the Def Con 2023 hacking conference in Las Vegas last month. Some attendees with iPhones were shocked to see an Apple pop-up notification ...

The winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon University’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its fourth consecutive title, earning its ninth victory ...

That’s what organizers of the 15th annual Defcon hacking conference are telling attendees Friday after being tipped off that the TV news program Dateline NBC has sent a producer with a hidden camera ...

A hacking session at the DEFCON 26 event Thursday in Las Vegas resulted in electronic voting machines being compromised, with children able to amend voter details in just a few minutes –but the ...

Sven Cattell, shown above, is the founder of a key event at DefCon 31, the AI Village. The Village attracted thousands of people eager to take part in its Hack The Future challenge. At the Village I ...

The U.S. Air Force has found an unlikely source of new recruits: The yearly Defcon hacking conference, which runs Thursday through Sunday in Las Vegas. Col. Michael Convertino came to Defcon for the ...