“There is a criminal ecosystem out there,” said Marc Rogers, the conference’s head of security. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, CISA Director Jen Easterly and Acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden are all in Las Vegas for DEF CON and Black Hat, its more corporate-friendly counterpart.īut the convention didn’t earn its reputation as “the world’s most hostile network” just because of what happens on the main stage. government officials, dozens of whom are in attendance this year. They’ve taken over the controls of cars, tricked ATMs to spew out cash and sent insulin pumps into overdrive, to name a few memorable hacks.įeats like that have turned the convention into an increasingly common pit stop for top U.S.
ALL DEFCON CONFERENCE CODE
Operating under the principle that the best way to secure computer code is to expose it, attendees have demonstrated some truly jaw-dropping research over the last three decades. Since the first-ever convention in 1993, DEF CON has brought some of the world’s most talented computer security wizards into the Las Vegas desert to scour software, hardware and networking equipment in search of vulnerabilities. Their personal information was, mercifully, partly blacked out for privacy reasons. As of Friday afternoon, there were at least 2,000 sheep at DEF CON, per the floor-to-ceiling projection. It included, for the first time ever, a live feed with the location of individuals who were leaking data. At this year’s conference, which wraps up Sunday, the Wall of Sheep was located in a dimly lit auditorium off the main conference floor.
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