A short excerpt from today's long decision by Magistrate Judge Brian Tsuchida in Hadnagy v. Moss (W.D. Wash.): This case involves a defamation claim brought by Plaintiff, a past participant of the Def ...

Would you expect the 16th annual hackfest to begin any other way? Whether it's the arrest of security researchers, or the outted undercover TV producer of years gone by, Black Hat's sister security ...

Scattered around a bevy of tables in the election hacking village here at DEF CON 30 are all the devices – opened wide – that are supposed to keep elections safe. Oh, the irony. It’s unclear how some ...

On Saturday AirTight at DefCon 16 will trick Cisco wireless LAN access points into committing suicide, reports Brad Reese. The company will share its findings about self destructive behavior spotted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of hackers, researchers and security professionals descended on the Black Hat and Def Con security conferences in Las Vegas this week, an annual pilgrimage aimed at sharing the latest ...

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 ...