Reuters

U.S. may act to keep Chinese hackers out of Def Con hacker event

DENVER/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Washington is considering using visa restrictions to prevent Chinese nationals from attending popular summer hacking conferences in Las Vegas as part of a broader effort to ...
Homeland Security Today

DEFCON Kids Hack Voting Devices; Election Officials Dismiss ‘Pseudo Environment’ Test

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 ...
JD Supra

DefCon Chronicles: Hackers Respond to President Biden’s Unprecedented Request to Come to DefCon to Hack the World for Fun and Profit

Hackers responded to the White House call by the thousands, including reporter-AI-hacker Ralph Losey, to try to break existing software in open contests. Ralph joined in the AI hack attack, but there ...
JD Supra

VEGAS BABY! The AI Village at DEFCON Sponsors Red Team Hacking to Improve Ethics Protocols of Generative AI

This independent exercise will provide critical information to researchers and the public about the impacts of these models, and will enable AI companies and developers to take steps to fix issues ...
NBC2

Kids as young as 7 hack into election systems at DEFCON event

With Election Day less than three months away, the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit has learned security vulnerabilities still remain in how you cast your ballot and get the results.And ...
Security Systems News

DEF CON 30 comes of age with “Hacker Homecoming”

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 ...
NBC 7 San Diego

Inside the largest-ever AI chatbot hack fest, where hackers tried to outsmart OpenAI, Microsoft, Google

The competition ran from Aug. 11 to Aug. 13 as part of the world's largest hacking conference, the annual DEF CON convention in Las Vegas, and an estimated 2,200 people lined up for the challenge: In ...
techtimes

Back When Defcon's 'Race-to-Zero' Contest Worried Antivirus Software Vendors

The Defcon hacker conference in August 2008 unveiled a controversial contest at the time that has raised concerns within the cybersecurity industry. The "Race-to-Zero" contest challenges hackers to ...
SC Media

DefCon to feds: You’re not welcome this year

Jeff Moss, founder of the DefCon hacker conference, has a message for the feds: Please avoid the show this year. Long a recruitment hub for the federal government to encourage skilled hackers to ...
Digital Trends

Has DefCon gone soft, or are the real hackers in hiding? I have a theory

Mr. Worst Case Scenario is Digital Trends’ paranoid, squinty-gazed, perpetually on-edge security correspondent. And he’s prepared for anything to go wrong, dammit. This week, he’ll slither out of his ...
Wired

An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is ‘Trivially’ Easy to Bypass

One of your Mac's built-in malware detection tools may not be working quite as well as you think. At the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas, longtime Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle ...