Good night Singapore and hello Switzerland! I am off for meetings this week and looking forward to the change of scenery.

The #DefCon #Singapore March Chill Out will be happening March 27th at Georges in Tai Seng. Everyone is welcome! Come meet the local InfoSec, Hacker, and Researcher communities working to make the DEF CON Singapore conference a reality at the end April […] [Original post on defcon.social]

RE: https://techpolicy.social/@joebeone/116194325589609756 New AI term just dropped: vibekilling

Spread the word! @phrack.org CFP with demoscene cracktro is live. Turn up the volume and enjoy the awesome stylings of @PiotrBania with some hopefully inspiring text from phrack staff :) phrack.org

Please welcome the #defcon34 #CTF organizers, Benevolent Bureau of Birds! We're excited to have them on board. Your first chance to see what they're bringing to the table will be in the #DC34CTF Qualifier Round, scheduled for May 22-24, 2026. The Birds are […] [Original post on defcon.social]

60 is a remarkable age. Your first 30 years you can't conceive of what's going on – you can't really understand the school year ending though you know about it intellectually. At 60 you've done 30 twice, and you know you only have 30 left to you – if you are even that lucky.

Overall network traffic seems lower / slower. Anyone tracking how the internet is holding up?

Friendly reminder: #defconsingapore is next month! We’ve got tons of information about what you can expect on our website. Find out about all the exciting contests, events and Villages at https://defcon.org/html/defcon-singapore/dc-singapore-index.html. Hope […] [Original post on defcon.social]

RIP FX - You are a legend

#mastoadmin reminder if you are running on SSD. Linux has atime enabled by default, so to reduce wear consider turning it off with “zfs set atime=off yourpoolname”

#defconmovienight is Saturday, Feb 28 at 8pm PST. Please join us for 'Apocalypse Now' in honor of the passing of screen legend Robert Duvall. We'll be in the movie-night-text channel of the #defcon discord (Discord.gg/defcon) with movie chat and hangout vibes.

When Russia invaded Ukraine we got to watch and study their cyber attack capabilities. Now when Iran attacks the USA we get to study their capabilities first hand. Be kind to your incident response and threat hunting teams!

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Weld/116100770024505311 One of my best memories was staying up all night drinking and exchanging stories with Par at a DEF CON decades ago. Stores about him inspired me in my earlier days, and to finally get to "meet your hero" left a lasting impression […]

Looking at some statistics from one of our #defcon name servers reveals something interesting. At some point traffic over TCP 53 was overtaken by TCP TLS 853. Very cool! [Connects] [bytes sent] 222,202 58,890,352 tcp to 853 59,031 7,252,360 tcp to 53 3,410,595 592,245,821 udp to 53 114,315 […]

Ever evolving #singapore, CNY / LNY started a couple days ago but today #muslims start their fasting month. The supermarkets have switched from red & gold to green & gold decorations, and the featured food from oranges to dates.

I saw this video on Reddit, I’m curious how it calculates “cups” and is cups a good proxy for productivity? Obviously the person running the espresso machine will have the most. It reminds me of the (inaccurate) adage “If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist”

And please… you can just edit the #wikipedia article directly! I have now no connection to it beyond creating the first version! 🙂 If you have additions you think should be added, go for it! (Just make sure any additions are backed up by reliable sources […]

Can you imagine having these just sitting in inventory?

Happy eve of Chinese New Year #cny / Lunar New Year #lny / Spring Festival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_New_Year Celebrating with family in #singapore with a tiny beer. Ha!

Best warning: +------------------------------------------------------------+ |THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION OF BIND, IT WILL EAT YOUR DATA| +------------------------------------------------------------+

Friendly reminder: The Hackers’ Almanack for DEF CON 33 is out! Courtesy of the Project Franklin team we have a handy compendium of crucial insights and takeaways from last year’s presentations. You can download the Almanack here […]

Good news, everyone! The #DEFCON34 room blocks are live! While supplies last, you can get a special room rate at the following hotels: Fontainebleau Swanky, luxurious and conveniently located across the street from the LVCC. For those who must be first in […] [Original post on defcon.social]

The DEF CON 33 Hackers’ Almanack translates a year of hacker research into plain language for policymakers—covering offensive AI, cybercrime, authoritarian surveillance, and critical infrastructure vulnerabilities. Read more […] [Original post on defcon.social]

Just read @pluralistic's great article "The Nuremberg Caucus", which lays out a number of ways that our Democratic leadership *could* rise up to the moment of the Trump administration's fascist takeover, if they weren't a bunch of spineless cowards. I decided to email it to my two state […]

Ok what are possible Discord alternatives?

RE: https://friendhole.social/@beandreams/116044476889831233 Paging @violetblue

Hello South Africa! I’ll be enjoying your beautiful country for a few days before leaving your summer and heading to Munich for their Winter 😂 If you will be at the #mcsc conference this Thursday and Friday please drop by our #defcon sessions on Friday and say hello! https://mcsc.io

On the high memory and SSD costs: I placed an order for a very expensive 60TB SSD in November, about 7k, then it -> 8.8k -> 10k and now I am being advised it will ship March 3 but they don’t know at what price. It’s currently $16.5k USD. So no drive for me.

Friendly reminder - Early Bird Pricing for our Singapore Training Event ends February 8. Signing up now reserves your spot and earns you a $250 discount. https://training.defcon.org #defcon #defcontraining #singapore #earlybird

DEF CON 34 Update! All of the calls for DC34 in Vegas are now live, including the Calls for Papers, Workshops, Demo Labs, and Policy. https://defcon.org/html/defcon-34/dc-34-cfi.html If you're looking to participate in a creator capacity, the submission doors […] [Original post on defcon.social]

Looks like someone built a tool to check your LinkedIn network for names from the Epstein documents. Soon I expect other tools will follow to work with other social media platforms. This is what the beginning of what community accountability looks like. Just because the legal system is captured […]

the answers to "what makes CORS hard?" here are so interesting, so far I'm getting 1) The browser's same-origin policy is very counterintuitive 2) Browser network tools do not always show you all the debugging info (for example Firefox does not show you the OPTIONS request in the Network tab) […]

Our next #defcon #singapore Chillout is end of the month, Feb 27!

Don’t forget to unfollow all the enablers revealed in the Epstein dumps should you be connected on whatever social media sites you use. #epstein

I think I prefer Loops’ app privacy than Upscrolled.

See everyone in #singapore at the #defcon Chill gathering tonight!

The wait is over - online reg for DEF CON Singapore is open! It’s all happening at the Marina Bay Sands, April 28-30. You can learn all about it at https://defcon.org/html/defcon-singapore/dc-singapore-index.html Online registration will be open until April […] [Original post on defcon.social]

Sorry for the disruption to our #defcon #tor .onion services. There is a new version of c Tor out, so we are taking the opportunity to upgrade the server OS, related packages, and Tor applications. Our onion sites and relay servers should be back up in a few hours!

It's great to see all this anti-ICE, pro-Minnesota #music coming out. If you haven't been playing along at home: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w Billy Bragg - City of Heroes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGW8 NOFX - Minnesota […]

Truly insane

Our main tracker software has been upgraded, please let us know if you notice and changes or problems! https://infocon.org #infocon #hacking #bittorrent

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/115969540425890734 To build on what was said below, your whole online existence is essentially three things combined: 1 - Your email account or mail server where you can get password resets. 2 - DNS that protects the mail server from being […]

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes/115967791152135761 they edited the clearly LLM-generated-and-human-unread readme to “clarify” that by production-ready matrix server by Cloudflare they meant a proof-of-concept matrix server not endorsed for production […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Run listmonk they said, it will be easy they said. Sounds great! - Doesn’t support TLS, ok well just use stunnel or haproxy - Oh hmm, doesn’t seem to have any support for IPv6.. I guess v4 only it is. - I’ll install a mail server for it to use. Oh, no bounce processing unless I also install a […]

A good visualiser of who is now in charge of the PLA after the purge of vice chairman General Zhang Youxia. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/01/25/2003851179 #China #ccp #xijinping

Lots of work behind the scenes to get ready to open registration for #defcon #singapore A new currency means a new store, means new configurations, and so on. We are aiming to open middle of the week!

Big website updates for #DEFCONSingapore! You can now find information on many of the Villages, Contests and Communities you’ll find when you join us in April. We hope you’ll take some time to get familiar with the lineup, and maybe even begin getting your […] [Original post on defcon.social]

If you are a service operator, just a friendly reminder that data canaries are telling through inaction, not action. Don't do: "Check this post in the future. I'll remove it if we're ever served a secret court order." Those secret court orders can totally prevent you from making that change […]