DEF CON 27 Recap: Trends, Topics, and Schedules
Table of Contents
- Topics
- Schedule
- Behind the Scenes of the DEF CON 27 Badge
- Don’t Red-Team AI Like a Chump
- Process Injection Techniques - Gotta Catch Them All
- Change the World, cDc Style: Cowtips from the first 35 years
- I Know What You Did Last Summer: 3 Years of Wireless Monitoring at DEF CON
- Breaking The Back End! It Is Not Always A Bug. Sometimes, It Is Just Bad Design!
- Re: What’s up Johnny?—Covert Content Attacks on Email End-toEnd Encryption
- NOC NOC. Who’s there? All. All who? All the things you wanted to know about the DEF CON NOC and we won’t tell you about
- Villages
- Media
- Schedules
Topics
- AI
- Application Security
- Automobiles
- Data brokers
- Elections
- Transportation
- Windows
The following seems to have been less present this year when compared with previous years.
- Blockchain
- DDoS
- IDS
- Smart Contracts
- Tor
- Traffic construction
- Unix
- WiFi
- Forensics
- DNS
- Pentesting
- Botnets
- Buffer overflows
Schedule
Behind the Scenes of the DEF CON 27 Badge
Joe Grand (Kingpin)
Don’t Red-Team AI Like a Chump
Ariel Herbert-Voss
Process Injection Techniques - Gotta Catch Them All
Itzik Kotler, Amit Klein
Change the World, cDc Style: Cowtips from the first 35 years
Joseph Menn, Peiter Mudge Zatko, Chris Dildog Rioux, Deth Vegetable, Omega
I Know What You Did Last Summer: 3 Years of Wireless Monitoring at DEF CON
d4rkm4tter (Mike Spicer)
Breaking The Back End! It Is Not Always A Bug. Sometimes, It Is Just Bad Design!
Gregory Pickett
Re: What’s up Johnny?—Covert Content Attacks on Email End-toEnd Encryption
Jens Müller
NOC NOC. Who’s there? All. All who? All the things you wanted to know about the DEF CON NOC and we won’t tell you about
The DEF CON NOC
Villages
There are several new villages that were present at 27 that reflect the expanding technology landscape.
AI
AppSec
Transportation
Media
- https://www.wired.com/story/avaya-desk-phone-bug-defcon/
- https://www.wired.com/story/teen-hacker-school-software-blackboard-follett/
- https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/08/08/def-con-stack-overflow-traffic-data-trends/?cb=1
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xw9kp/black-hat-talk-about-time-ai-causes-uproar-is-deleted-by-conference
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/welcome-to-black-hat-where-the-attendees-are-the-threat-11565343002
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49252501
- https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/coec-cmt081219.php
- https://www.cnet.com/news/darpas-10-million-voting-machine-couldnt-be-hacked-at-defcon-for-the-wrong-reasons/
- https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/defcon-hackers-netflix-bank-acount/
- https://www.cnet.com/news/what-a-security-researcher-learned-from-monitoring-traffic-at-defcon/
Schedules
- https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-12/dc-12-schedule.html 2004
- https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-14/dc-14-schedule.html
- https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-20/dc-20-schedule.html
- https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-21/dc-21-schedule.html
- https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-22/dc-22-schedule.html
- https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-24/dc-24-schedule.html