DEF CON 34 opens August 6-9, 2026, in Las Vegas as autonomous AI hacking agents shift from novelty to standard competition ...

Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push ...

DEF CON 34 badge hardware features the Baochip-1x, the first production-scale open-source silicon chip specifically designed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Def Con, one of the largest and longest-running hacking conferences in the world, announced on Wednesday that three people linked ...

LAS VEGAS — DEF CON, the world’s largest hacker conference, is trying to put its legions of experts to work by creating a volunteer army to help protect America’s vulnerable water systems and schools.

After its village contest earned a coveted Black Badge last year, VanishID brings its custom pinball challenge back to ...

LAS VEGAS — At the largest hacker conference in the world this week, some turned out for a rare overtly partisan event: a fundraiser for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

LAS VEGAS — One peek inside the Voting Village at the DEF CON hacker conference would lead the average person to believe they had entered a sterile operating room meant only for computers. At tables ...

James Rice, lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, is presenting the cybersecurity game Hacker Troll House on Aug. 9 at DEF CON 33 in Las Vegas. Rice created the game where users take on a ...

Def Con, the world's largest hacking conference, has a long history of being a kind of "neutral zone" where computer miscreants casually mingle with federal agents — oftentimes unwittingly. But ...