Join Social Engineering Community Village cofounders and to talk all about what kind of events the Social Engineering Community has in store for DEF CON 30. Time is short to get to the Nautilus Institute Website and register your team for CTF quals! Come visit us in #ctf-discussion-text to ask all the important questions, like “when is web?” and “this challenge is too hard unlock another one” Weekend Updates! CTF Quals news, and New SE Community Q&A Today!ĬTF Quals are almost here (May 28 at 0000 UTC) and the CTF Chat on the DEF CON discord is already open!įrom quals chat on the Defcon discord is open. First come, first served so don't procrastinate.Ĭlass descriptions and reg information are at.
Keep your eyes on this space for more selections! DEF CON Training Site is Live!ĭEF CON Trainings registration is LIVE! Right after DEF CON 30, we're excited to offer these intensive 2 day classes with a certificate of completion. First Batch of DEF CON 30 speakers is Live!įriendly DEF CON 30 announcement - the first bunch of speakers are selected and available for your perusal on the DEF CON forums. Original DEF CON 30 Covid Policy post from May. We thank everyone for keeping each other safe last year, and we can’t wait to get the gang together responsibly just a few short weeks from now. *** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Malwarebytes Labs authored by Jean Taggart.Just so there’s no confusion, DEF CON 30 will require masks, same as last year. You can find out more about badgelife here, courtesy of Hackaday. The suite where all these activities took place was most thoroughly equipped with microscopes, soldering stations, classic sci-fi movies in the background, and a bevy of delicious snacks!ĭefcon is what you make of it, and this year I elected to make it all about the badge life. I also took the opportunity to hone my soldering skills and repair electronics. I got to learn about the Arduino IDE as I flashed the base firmware on the Kickstarter pledged badge packages. The project I was involved with was Defcon Drone badge (Hi Bl1n7!) and our team frantically flashed badge operating systems and assembled kits into the late hours of the night. How do you combat counterfeit badges when the vast majority of your attendees know about plastic card printers, have a passing familiarity with photo editing software, and perhaps a flexible moral code?Ī selection of the SAO mini badges acquired through trade, beverage exchange, or monetary transactions.Īll of these are but a small sampling of what was available. Oh the swagiest of swag! Epic t-shirts, cool and weird stickers, army backpacks with a bajillion pockets, personalized hotel cards, challenge coins, and the crown jewel of them all… The coveted unofficial electronic badges.ĭefcon has the best badges-in part out of necessity, I theorize. The list goes on and on in a cornucopia of coolness.Īnd let’s not forget the swag. There’s the car hacking village, drone hacking, the social engineering events. Warranties are gleefully broken and tamper mechanisms are ignored or defeated in an undetectable manner. Soldering irons abound, and disassembling is encouraged. Then there are various hardware hacking villages, where routers, Wi-Fi repeaters, or anything containing a small computer is picked apart. Villages, such as the LockPick village, exist where volunteers demonstrate just how illusionary the protection a physical lock provides. And let’s not forget HallCon, where you strike up a conversation with random strangers and never, not once, have them roll their eyes when you start talking about security. There’s even a LineCon, consisting of the impromptu discussions that take place while waiting to register or waiting to get into a room to see a presentation.