Creator Stage·24 min
Lacey Harbour
Examines FDA regulatory challenges and security requirements surrounding point-of-care 3D-printed medical device production systems.
policyaihardware+2
DEF CON 32/Creator Stage across years
Creator Stage DC32
Las Vegas Convention Center · 8-11 August 2024 · 107 talks
DEF CON 32 Creator Stage showcases technical presentations, hardware demonstrations, and research by independent security creators, builders, and practitioners. Talks cover embedded exploitation, automotive and avionics security, bug bounty tradecraft, operational technology, and practical community education.
1–24 of 107 talks
Creator Stage·25 min
Matt Gaffney
Details how public key infrastructure secures aircraft software parts and ground networks, addressing post-quantum transition challenges.
aviationcryptographyauthentication+2
Creator Stage·24 min
Tim Clevenger
Shares engineering best practices for deploying robust physical access control systems, from encrypted reader wiring to badge management.
access-controlphysical-securityrfid+2
Creator Stage·43 min
Craig Lester
Dissects airline fare calculation and revenue management systems from an adversarial mindset to uncover architectural constraints and flaws.
aviationpricingrecon+2
Creator Stage·24 min
Martin Strohmeier
Presents an in-depth security analysis of the satellite ADS-C aviation protocol, demonstrating message injection and position tampering using SDRs.
wirelesssatelliteaviation+2
Creator Stage·54 min
Andrew Bellini
Provides a beginner-friendly methodology and budget hardware toolkit guide for disassembling, extracting firmware, and hacking IoT devices.
iothardwarehardware+2
Creator Stage·26 min
Patrick Walsh · Bob Wall
Explains embedding inversion attacks against generative AI vector databases and introduces open-source vector encryption for private search.
aicryptographydatabase+2
Creator Stage·21 min
Adam Batori · Robert Pafford
Walks through the hardware engineering behind an Aerospace Village badge featuring an integrated low-cost Linux system and ADS-B receiver.
hardwareaviationsdr+2
Creator Stage·27 min
Kevin Mitchell
Details the discovery and exploitation of CVE-2023-52709 in the Texas Instruments BLE5-Stack, causing denial of service in bonded peer devices.
bluetoothwirelessautomotive+2
Creator Stage·24 min
Daniel Beard
Shows how to build an inexpensive wireless BadUSB device with Arduino hardware to execute payloads on airgapped medical systems.
hardwarebadusbmicrocontrollers+2
Creator Stage·36 min
Fernando De La Peña Llaca
Explores the application of holographic communications in space missions and its potential to revolutionize remote medical procedures.
space-securitytelecominnovation+2
Creator Stage·23 min
Harry Krejsa · Sarah Hipel
Provides a White House policy perspective on systemic cybersecurity risks in national electric vehicle charging networks and grid integration.
policyautomotivecritical-infrastructure+2
Creator Stage·22 min
Bill Graydon
Demonstrates physical entry bypass methods that defeat secured doors using egress and access control hardware flaws without picking locks.
physical-securityaccess-controlhardware+2
Creator Stage·14 min
Terry Luan · Karen Ng
Covers advanced physical security bypass techniques that exploit door latch mechanisms, egress sensors, and access control hardware.
physical-securityaccess-controlhardware+2
Creator Stage·51 min
Abhinav Panda · Bradán Lane
Hardware creators compare different engineering approaches, tradeoffs, and design lessons learned when building multicolor electronic badges.
hardwaremicrocontrollerselectronics+2
Creator Stage·54 min
Catherine Ullman
Walks through a real-world investigative narrative to show how digital artifacts in system registries fit into broader forensic investigations.
forensicsinvestigationblue-team+2
Creator Stage·43 min
securelyfitz
Presents OpenTaxus, an open-source hardware badge platform customizable via KiCad and CircuitPython for low-cost mass production.
hardwareopen-sourcemicrocontrollers+2
Creator Stage·24 min
Avi McGrady
Makes the case for establishing standardized K-12 cybersecurity and data privacy curricula to protect schools and build foundational defense awareness.
educationcommunitypolicy+2
Creator Stage·54 min
Panelists share stories and strategies for advancing cybersecurity education, youth mentorship, and STEM outreach initiatives.
communityeducationculture+2
Creator Stage·41 min
Matt Domko
Details architectural and data pipeline practices used at Rabbit to secure customer identities, anonymize voice data, and control RAG model access.
privacyaiiam+2
Creator Stage·25 min
Adel Karimi
Presents Galah, an LLM-powered web honeypot that dynamically generates authentic HTTP responses to emulate diverse web applications.
honeypotaillm+2
Creator Stage·36 min
Octavio Gianatiempo · Gastón Aznarez
Reverse engineers DrayTek router firmware to uncover dynamic module persistence mechanisms and presents an open-source memory integrity detection tool.
hardwarereverse-engineeringpersistence+2
Creator Stage·26 min
Rachel Cummings
Examines operational challenges in deploying differential privacy systems across real-world enterprise environments and government agencies.
privacypolicycryptography+2
Creator Stage·48 min
Michael Laufer
Demonstrates open-source automated chemical synthesis pathways and MicroLab hardware for low-cost decentralized medicine production.
open-sourcebiotechnologyhardware+2