DEF CON 27 Recap: Trends, Topics, and Schedules

Table of Contents

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

Schedules

Author: Jason Walsh

j@wal.sh

Last Updated: 2025-07-30 13:45:27

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