Track 2·46 min
Amrita
Surveys detection methods for AI-generated text and inference-time steering techniques that reduce harmful LLM outputs.
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Browse DEF CON 34Mesa, AZ, USA · February 2025 · 10 talks
Track 2 talks from CactusCon 13 2025.
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Track 2·46 min
Amrita
Surveys detection methods for AI-generated text and inference-time steering techniques that reduce harmful LLM outputs.
Track 2·52 min
Kat Reid · Lester Godsey
Shows how communications and security teams can track social media threats and respond to false narratives during a crisis.
Track 2·49 min
James McQuiggan
Explains how deepfakes are built, the fraud cases they power, and the human checks that help catch them.
Track 2·1 hr
Christian Taillon
Explains how self-hosted open-weight LLMs can support SOC triage, threat intel and document Q&A without sending data to third parties.
Track 2·49 min
Thomas Wilhelm
Walks through real-world attacks on AI systems, from road stickers fooling cars to poisoned training data and model extraction.
Track 2·56 min
Derek Melber
Shows how common Active Directory misconfigurations enable domain takeover and how to audit and fix them with PowerShell.
Track 2·21 min
Monica Kay Royal
Shows how machine learning models can leak training data and which anonymization and privacy techniques reduce that risk.
Track 2·44 min
Alex Trudeau
Shows how to bypass iOS certificate pinning by reversing a training app in Ghidra and hooking it with Objection.
Track 2·46 min
Gopi Raam Morti · Aruneesh
Ranks ten surprising AI system attacks across organizations, consumers and critical infrastructure, paired with mitigations.
Track 2·25 min
Taaha Sayyed
Recounts how an accidental kiosk exploit at a university broadcast a Rick Astley video across campuses and what followed.