“In interview after interview, I asked them what, if anything, might force the industry to confront its dim longer-term prospects. Their answers were vague. The midterm election? An economic collapse? One Silicon Valley figure suggested, “It could be as simple as 10 Republican senators […]

The much-hyped SIM farm the Secret Service seized uses readily available off the shelf tech that, very interestingly, has also become critical to ticket scalping. I, like others, am extremely not buying the idea that this was intended to take down the cell network […]

🤔 Chinese drone experts have flown to Russia to conduct technical development work on military drones at a state-owned weapons manufacturer that is under Western sanctions […]

Updated Botconf @botconf , CyCon NATO, DeepSec @deepsec , 44CON @44CON , and DNS OARC @dnsoarc conferences now live! https://infocon.org/

Well, either the rapture thing wasn't scheduled for midnight EDT or my entire Washington, DC neighborhood consists of sinners who didn't make the cut. No idea which, TBH.

It’s more important than ever to support independent media free from corporate caving to autocracy and wherever possible on the open social web and on direct open media. https://journa.host/@w7voa/115222129277589068

#defcon in the news: The @defconfranklin project got some coverage on @npr ! https://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/nx-s1-5528721/how-a-small-vermont-town-is-protecting-its-water-from-hackers To learn more about Franklin's mission to connect volunteers to under-resourced infrastructure organizations […]

So...war's cancelled.

Ok people are misusing the term "cognitive dissonance" again! I meant to do this rant years ago. So here goes. Phrases like, "Boy, MAGA must sure be feeling cognitive dissonance today!" are not only using big words with total ignorance about what they mean, but they're helping promote the kind […]

This statement is great. The broader effort we all want is an open and pluralistic internet where users have agency & choices, developers have a rich and fertile ecosystem to build in, and new and better communities and infrastructure are possible. Nobody wins when we fight for protocol […]

Vampire Hunter-D, Initial-D, 🤔

Updated #defcon 33 presentation materials have been posted to the https://media.defcon.org server. As more content is ready we will post updates.

@lcamtuf I feel like we need to somehow combine the cyber and quantum words after seeing that.

Having ongoing discussions about URL parsing differences as a basis for a #curl security vulnerability report made me check when I wrote my "my URL isn't your URL" blog post. *Nine years ago*. And we have not made a single move towards a solution in all this time […]

#DEFCONBahrain Announcement! The Call for Demo Labs is open. If you have an open-source project, tool or technique to share with the #defcon audience, your moment has arrived. The submission deadline is October 5, so get your submissions in ASAP. We’ve got […] [Original post on defcon.social]

Here is an 11meg photo of the main sticker wall from #defcon 33, so many memes. https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2033/DEF%20CON%2033%20pictures/DEF%20CON%2033%20sticker%20wall%20-%20medium.webp

Took time, but it was worth it a script to download playlists from peertube https://codeberg.org/Simx72/peertube-playlist-downloader #coding #javascript

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today released a new ICE recruiting poster, under the stilted and sexist tagline "which way, American man?" Why did they use that word language? Because it's a dog whistle, something ordinary humans won't notice but that those […] [Original post on c.im]

#defcon33 upate: Contest Winners are live on the DEF CON website! Check out the results on https://defcon.org/html/defcon-33/dc-33-contest-results.html We want to extend our gratitude to everyone who took part in contests this year and big congratulations to the victors. #defcon #contests

A whistleblower from the U.S. Social Security Administration says members of DOGE uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server. Chief Data Officer Charles Borges says despite his concerns, other agency officials signed off on a decision to upload records […]

#defcon #defcon33 #packethackingvillage walking the walk, talking the talk and dressing the part.

Good morning to everyone except GitHub, which: * allows (but strongly discourages) fine-grained access tokens with no expiration date, but * won't let you create one with an expiration date more than one year out. So my choices are "never expire" or expire in a year or less". Our […]

The updated and re-encoded collection of Dutch Hacker Camps is live, including #why2025! https://infocon.org/cons

The talk about #signalgate (remember that scandal? If no: don't worry, the US is a hell hole atm) from #defcon is really really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYyfrTIPQY

That badge was incredible! https://defcon.social/@Hank/115069446364220862

New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/new-zero-day-startup-offers-20-million-for-tools-that-can-hack-any-smartphone/ #cybersecurity #uae #advancedsecuritysolutions

Very nice blog post about the state of Web fingerprinting: https://pitg.network/news/2025/08/15/browser-fingerprinting.html

I’m looking for audio of videos from early Dutch Hacker cons, does anyone know if they exist for Hacking In Progress (HIP97), Hacking at the End of the Universe (HEU93), or Galactic Hacker Party (GHP89) ?

Having lost more hours to reading criminal complaints over the years than I care to remember, I can confidently state that I have never encountered one as entertaining and complete as the one that dropped today, charging a 22 y/o Oregon man with operating […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

In celebration of WHY2025 we are cleaning up and reorganizing our collection of Dutch Hacker Camp events.

DEF CON 33 is winding down now, and we want to take a moment to thank the whole DEF CON community for another amazing year. Thank you for bringing your boundless energy and curiosity to this little party we throw. Thank you for spending another long enchanted […] [Original post on defcon.social]

An essential dilemma of election security research is that activists and true believers selectively cherrypick findings to make unsupportable or misleading claims. There *are* real vulnerabilities in many US election systems, and we have to discuss them in order to identify and mitigate them […]

You can really see the surge of new users right around #defcon, then as the conference ends so do the sign ups. Let's see how many stick around Mastodon - a great complement to existing social media.

We got through almost all the drives at the #defcon Data Duplication Village #ddv - One failed duplicator prevented us from fulfilling the last of the VX Underground June 2025 collection. Next year we will add an SSD only duplicator for those that want extra fast dupes.

Drives me crazy. Github requires Java Script to work, but when you use the @torproject browser bundle it allways gives a "Something went wrong!" error. Their way of keeping Tor off GitHub I'm guessing, it's been broken for about a year.

One of the most essential web browsing extensions: https://mastodon.social/@noscript/115022475784138250

Apparently, being a DOGE douche, former Com denizen, and getting carjacked and beat up by two 15-year-olds qualifies one for consideration for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. Who knew? […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Las Vegas keeping the pool warnings real: #defcon

Imagine you're a professional magician at a magic conference. 95% of the attendees are other magicians, looking to improve their craft and learn new ideas. But 5% of the people there are self-appointed "investigators", seeking evidence that magic involves *actual* supernatural powers. To them […]

OK that’s it, time to delete this app.

This year’s #blackhat limited edition Lego like kit. Each year they have a different theme, last year was the NOC, and this year is the Main Stage. There I am with glasses, and @jennifer is heading up to talk. ❤️

In LineCon at #defcon? Check out the Official Sound Track for 33 - there are great songs there. https://media.defocn.org/

Don't F*ck It Up #defcon

Don’t forget #defcon offers all of its core services as Tor .onion sites, including our Mastodon instance. Looking to uplevel your privacy? Install the @torproject Tor Browser Bundle and take advantage. https://www.torproject.org/download/

With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media. Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

Seriously, come to the Voting Village! We’re really excited about the program this year. And we have stickers. And t shirts. Maybe hats, too.

Once again, I'm not going to link to this BS, which deserves no oxygen. However, in case you come across it, you should know that: - The NSA, a branch of the US Department of Defense, isn't involved in any way in US elections, which are run by states. - The NSA doesn't audit elections, or […]