Aerospace Village·24 min
Clara Davis · Dylan Gururajan
Pairs a ptrace-based process injection chain against CubeSat flight software with a pipeline that maps hidden C and C++ dependencies in satellite code.
supply-chainlinuxspace+2
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Aerospace Village DC34
Las Vegas Convention Center · 6–9 August 2026 · 12 talks
Aerospace Village talks from DEF CON 34.
1–12 of 12 talks
Aerospace Village·34 min
David Sobec · Jackson Stewart · Samuil Nikolov
Presents two Embry-Riddle student prototypes: an AI log-triage system for aircraft cyber defense and a virtual satellite constellation testbed for security research.
aerospacethreat-detectionmachine-learning+1
Aerospace Village·26 min
Lily · Adam · Robert · Kevin
Presents SAOv3, a draft add-on standard for conference badges, plus open-source OLED animation tooling that removes screen tearing.
embeddedopen-sourcevillage+2
Aerospace Village·25 min
Katie Fejer
Explains how an existing function-randomization defense was made certifiable under DO-178C by producing traceable, verifiable evidence without changing what it does.
embeddedrisktrust+2
Aerospace Village·28 min
Greg Albrecht
Walks through how drones are detected and mitigated over North American airspace, covering Remote ID, RF control links, legal authority and the gaps in today's counter-drone tools.
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Aerospace Village·28 min
Andrew Tierney · Adam Bromiley
Explains how AFDX, the Ethernet-based avionics network used on modern airliners, differs from office networks, and what probing a test-bench airframe revealed.
networkembeddeddevice+1
Aerospace Village·29 min
David Case · Jonathan Xue
Shows how NTSB vehicle recorder specialists recover and decode undocumented binary logs from damaged aircraft and submarine devices.
incident-responsereverse-engineeringhardware+2
Aerospace Village·16 min
Kent Munroe
Examines how cheap electronic conspicuity boxes that show nearby light aircraft can be abused over Wi-Fi, from weak defaults to firmware memory flaws.
aviationdevicevulnerabilities+2
Aerospace Village·17 min
Nefeli Georgilas
Walks through memory corruption and race-condition flaws in PX4's MAVLink and uORB subsystems that can halt drone missions.
vulnerability-researchmemorydevice+2
Aerospace Village·28 min
Rose Idan
Presents an empirical study of 126 open-source satellite flight software repositories, covering maintenance state, severity, weakness types and affected subsystems.
open-sourcesupplyvulnerabilities+2
Aerospace Village·26 min
Matt Gaffney · Marcie Wise
Gives cybersecurity professionals a fast overview of the regulations, standards, aircraft systems and skills needed to move into aviation security.
aviationintroductionguide+2
Aerospace Village·26 min
Brandon Bailey
Introduces SpaceCOP, an open-source onboard intrusion detection system for NASA's Core Flight System that turns SPARTA behavioral indicators into spacecraft detections.
spacethreat-detectionopen-source+2