Main Stage·57 min
Cliff Stoll
DC34 · Beginner · 57 min
Cliff Stoll reflects on the 40th anniversary of tracking down an international KGB cyber espionage ring originating from a 75-cent accounting error.
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Main Stage·57 min
Cliff Stoll
DC34 · Beginner · 57 min
Cliff Stoll reflects on the 40th anniversary of tracking down an international KGB cyber espionage ring originating from a 75-cent accounting error.
Main Stage·45 min
Bruce Schneier
DC34 · Beginner · 45 min
Bruce Schneier examines how artificial intelligence systems hack human institutions, tax codes, financial markets, and legal frameworks.
Main Stage·44 min
Cybertiger · Colonel Panic · The Wrew
DC34 · Intermediate · 44 min
Cybertiger, Colonel Panic, and The Wrew introduce low-cost counter-surveillance hardware built around the ESP32 to detect tracking devices.
Main Stage·46 min
Bill Swearingen
DC34 · Advanced · 46 min
Bill Swearingen explores whether adversarial patterns printed on everyday clothing can effectively fool commercial and municipal facial recognition algorithms.
Main Stage·36 min
Aaron Schulman · Jerry Yu · Yibo Wei
DC34 · Advanced · 36 min
Shows how an aftermarket dealer-installed car alarm shipped one shared key across its units, letting a smartphone unlock and immobilize vehicles.
IoT Village·40 min
Andrew Bellini
DC34 · Intermediate · 40 min
Shows how a beginner can use AI agents and a cheap bench rig to find and exploit bugs in consumer IoT firmware, using a router as the example.
Bug Bounty Village·25 min
Pedro Paniago
DC34 · Intermediate · 25 min
Walks through a bug bounty hunter's experiment wiring AI into his manual methodology, with the results, limits and practical tips it produced.
Main Stage·49 min
Jon Gaines
DC34 · Expert · 49 min
Walks through a self-funded teardown of Flock Safety gunshot detectors, license plate readers and edge compute boxes, from UART access to exposed camera feeds.
AppSec Village·30 min
Simcha Kosman
DC34 · Advanced · 30 min
Shows how a ChatGPT code sandbox was chained into a command-and-control channel using spreadsheet parsing abuse, reasoning injection, and covert signaling over a shared package proxy.
Bug Bounty Village·21 min
Glendon Chong
DC34 · Advanced · 21 min
Walks through three TikTok bug bounty reports where web cache poisoning on an OAuth login endpoint led to account takeovers.
Aerospace Village·26 min
Lily · Adam · Robert · Kevin
DC34 · Advanced · 26 min
Presents SAOv3, a draft add-on standard for conference badges, plus open-source OLED animation tooling that removes screen tearing.
Main Stage·46 min
Vladimir Tokarev · Ofek Itach
DC34 · Expert · 46 min
Walks through three native-code memory bugs in llama.cpp and Ollama, from an Android JNI use-after-free to a Go/C out-of-bounds heap read.
Main Stage·47 min
Vitaly Simonovich
DC34 · Advanced · 47 min
Shows how LLM-assisted research turned five open-source C2 frameworks into a source of flaws that defenders can use against attacker infrastructure.
Main Stage·1 hr 14 min
Jason Clinton · Bruce Schneier · Heather Adkins
DC34 · Beginner · 1 hr 14 min
Panelists debate how to evaluate and release dual-use AI models, weighing open-weights diffusion and defender advantage as capabilities climb.
Main Stage·36 min
Matteo Giordano
DC34 · Intermediate · 36 min
Maps passkey attack surface across authenticators, cross-device transport, browsers, relying parties and cloud sync, with a Burp extension to test them.
Main Stage·45 min
Martin Vigo
DC34 · Advanced · 45 min
Follows a researcher's multi-angle attempt to defeat Bluetooth-operated Amazon lockers, from BLE protocol reversing to firmware extraction and physical lock work.
ICS Village·22 min
Amir Zaltzman
DC34 · Advanced · 22 min
Shows how refrigeration controllers from two major vendors were compromised through firmware extraction, emulation and chained flaws.
Bug Bounty Village·27 min
Bogdan Steele · Arnav Garg
DC34 · Advanced · 27 min
Presents MPG, a framework that mutates confirmed indirect prompt injection payloads to measure how many variants still bypass an AI assistant's safeguards.
BioHacking Village·25 min
D Castillo-Cornejo · M Woslum · Z Zinck
DC34 · Intermediate · 25 min
Presents a low-cost, open-source eDNA air sampler for catching ancient and airborne DNA as part of climate-linked biosurveillance.
Main Stage·24 min
Guanxing Wen
DC34 · Expert · 24 min
Shows how a crypto phone's MediaTek boot chain can be patched in memory from bootrom onward, and how the lock-screen and wallet keys behind it can be recovered.
IoT Village·42 min
Larry Pesce
DC34 · Intermediate · 42 min
Shows how an AI agent driven by an IoT pentest playbook found and chained flaws in a webcam, and what humans must still validate.
Physical Security Village·25 min
Andrew Lebedinsky
DC34 · Intermediate · 25 min
Shows how to turn physical red team findings into realistic threat evidence and dollar-based impact that persuades executives to fund fixes.
Physical Security Village·26 min
Bill Graydon · Bobby Graydon
DC34 · Advanced · 26 min
Explains which physical marks lock picking, tool-based bypasses, and electronic tampering leave behind, and how to tell whether a door was entered.
Main Stage·48 min
Daniel Monzon · Eric Labrador
DC34 · Expert · 48 min
Presents five new Active Directory Certificate Services escalation techniques that take a domain user to krbtgt extraction on a fully patched Windows Server 2025 CA.
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