Earlier this month, Annapolis-based SIXGEN brought home the win from Las Vegas, as a team made up of members from the cybersecurity company won a competition at the DEFCON 27 hacking conference. The ...

DefCon security on Friday warned attendees at the annual hacker conference that Dateline NBC may have sent a mole with a hidden camera to the event to capture hackers admitting to crimes. DefCon says ...

LAS VEGAS – Braving triple-digit heat, mean hangovers and an incredibly hostile network, roughly 10,000 hackers, security experts, feds, spies and various other "computer enthusiasts" took over the ...

DefCon is the world’s longest running and largest underground hacking conference. It’s one of those events that with each passing year gets more focus in the news. The things that come out of there ...

As of early March 2026, global tensions are notably high, with the US military's DEFCON status fluctuating between Levels 3 and 4, indicating significant concern but not full wartime alert.

As Russian troops continue their invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly put his nuclear forces on high alert. Since Russian military forces began invading Ukraine on ...

Undercover reporter Michelle Madigan (Associate Producer of NBC Dateline) got a little more than she bargained for when she tried to sneak in to DEFCON 2007 with hidden cameras to get someone to ...

DEFCON is huge. Last year attendance tipped at about 16k, and we’d wager this year will be even bigger. [Brian] and I will both be among those attending (more on that below) but I wanted to take this ...

Rep. Jared Golden, D-ME, warned members of the Democratic Party against going "DEFCON 5" on everything President Donald Trump does in an interview on Friday, explaining it would lose them credibility.

Defcon will once again be one-upping the sophistication of the conference attendee badges. Wired has just published a preview of this year’s badge. The core is a Freescale Flexis MC9S08JM60 processor.