The fallout from DEF CON organizers’ decision to ask the feds to stay away from this year’s event has been mixed–and predictable. For over two decades DEF CON has been an open nexus of hacker culture, ...
According to the “ACARS Drama” account, a message sent by pilots from the plane stated: “NO INFO AS OF NOW WE HAVE A BUNCH OF PAX THAT WERE AT A CYBER CONFERENCE IN LAS THEY WERE ABLE TO JAM OUR WIFI ...
Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency. Each year’s badge creator ...
The pro-Trump media company One America News (OAN) was banned from the hacking conference DEF CON for violating its privacy policy. A DEF CON spokesperson told Motherboard that OAN staff “violated DEF ...
In his classic 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, journalist Steven Levy traces the outline of a “hacker ethic” in an effort to determine what unites this amorphous group of ...