DEF CON 27/BioHacking Village across years
Paris, Bally's, Flamingo, and Planet Hollywood hotels, Las Vegas · 8-11 August 2019 · 17 talks
BioHacking Village at DEF CON 27 explores the intersection of security, biology, and DIY innovation. The 14 talks cover medical device security, biomedical engineering, DIY medicine, prosthetics, biohybrid materials, and the ethical implications of hacking biology.
1–17 of 17 talks
BioHacking Village·28 min
Andrea Downing
massive security vulnerability was discovered which allowed PHI to be leaked from closed patient support groups on Facebook. In this session we’ll discuss how a coalition of patients and security researchers faced thi...
BioHacking Village·1 hr 8 min
Wayne Penn
The human body is the most elegant and complex machine ever created, but often we do not realize how well it works until a major system has been compromised such as with an amputation severing and removing an element ...
BioHacking Village·31 min
Nick Titus
The internet is broken. It's vulnerable to manipulation, censorship, shutdowns, surveillance, and on top of all that, it costs to access it. What if we could bypass all that? The PirateBox platform with its meshing ca...
BioHacking Village·31 min
Steve Lewis
Exploring cyberbiosecurity considerations across biotechnology design, automated manufacturing, and healthcare infrastructure.
BioHacking Village·35 min
Alex Pearlman
I will present two case studies of groups using biohacking methods to create generic versions of two of the most widely prescribed and most expensive pharmaceuticals in America. I will explain their methods and motiva...
BioHacking Village·1 hr 9 min
Dr Harish Manyam
Evaluating the clinical impact of a vulnerability has significant implication on how the vulnerabilities is handled both pre and post disclosure including how it is communicated to physicians and patients. Open and tr...
BioHacking Village·27 min
Eric D Perakslis
Medical misinformation has been labeled as one of the greatest public health threats of our time. Previously eradicated diseases, such as measles are occurring in clusters and causing deaths. The problem is complex wi...
BioHacking Village·34 min
Najla Lindsay
Forensic Science and Information Security are very parallel fields. They are both methodical in nature and often one area builds succinctly on top of the other. With the ability to have a specialty in various areas, i...
BioHacking Village·38 min
Corey M Hudson
Demonstrating a buffer overflow exploit in popular genomics alignment software (BWA) and steps to secure bioinformatics tools.
BioHacking Village·44 min
Jay Lagorio
Managing diabetes revolves around stagnated tech from the 80s and 90s. Hackers took their lives into their hands by augmenting inadequate products after market. Building iterations of a DIY artificial pancreas and rea...
BioHacking Village·32 min
JC Vega
Want to learn how an epic clash between hackers turns into a battle of survival? How an intense, immersive experience builds critical cybersecurity skills? This talk highlights how storytelling, gamification and theat...
BioHacking Village·30 min
Rachel Smith
What tools are currently available to us to create “living” or bio-hybrid materials—those that can be animated with biological functionalities for growth, response, distributed information processing, and cuing to the...
BioHacking Village·22 min
Turtle Snap
Drawing the connections between how human biology is affecting the evolution of malware. This talk will discuss how malware can affect biological virus research and be used for future medical research. Basically, a co...
BioHacking Village·41 min
Jean Rintoul
Biomedical Imaging has previously been expensive and near impossible to hack and experiment with. If more people experimented and understood how imaging works we could move it forward much faster and make these transf...
BioHacking Village·35 min
Dr Avi Rubin
Even a device with the most ironclad firmware can still be subject to a broad variety of attacks depending on its interaction with other external components. This presentation will examine commonly overlooked vulnerab...
BioHacking Village·30 min
JJ Hastings
Adapting human biological systems and DIY hacking methodologies for survival and autonomy in space environments.
