We know DEF CON and Vegas can be a lot. If you're a friend of Bill W who's looking for a meeting or just a place to collect yourself, DEF CON 31 has you covered. Join us throughout the conference in ...

The hacker conference's "Safe Mode" means that many of its attendees will have to concede to being tracked in some form. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET ...

In February, when the Def Con hacker conference released its annual transparency report, the public learned that one of the most prominent figures in the field of social engineering had been ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Defcon conference is the wild and woolly version of Black Hat for the ...

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 ...

The yearly hacking convention was scheduled to take place from August 6 to 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada later on this year. Instead of the pre-planned physical event, DEF CON 2020 will be taking place ...

In context: Every year, the Def Con conference brings together computer security professionals, journalists, lawyers, US federal government officials, researchers and code wizards. The target: ...

Several attendees at the hacking conference Def Con reported seeing mysterious and persistent pop-ups prompting them to use their Apple ID to connect to an Apple TV, or to share a password with an ...

For years, a simple and elegant inside joke has permeated Defcon, the influential hacking conference. You say it to your friends, you reference it during your talk, you design a fake website to try to ...

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 ...

The wireless network at the DEF CON hacker conference has been called the most dangerous in the world. Members of the press were warned beforehand that “This is a Hacker Con, so consider the public ...

Even Wikileaks is unlikely to penetrate the secrecy surrounding Def Con 18. That's not some Department of Homeland Security designation; it's the 18th annual convention of hackers going on this week ...