BioHacking Village·25 min
D Castillo-Cornejo · M Woslum · Z Zinck
Presents a low-cost, open-source eDNA air sampler for catching ancient and airborne DNA as part of climate-linked biosurveillance.
villageopen-sourcedevice+2
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BioHacking Village DC34
Las Vegas Convention Center · 6–9 August 2026 · 10 talks
BioHacking Village talks from DEF CON 34.
1–10 of 10 talks
BioHacking Village·40 min
J Canabal · S Shackleford · S Skalski
Maps how ransomware attacks on hospitals translate into patient deaths, and how existing coding, certification and legal systems could be adapted to count that harm.
healthcareransomwarerisk+2
BioHacking Village·21 min
Francesco Costa
Shows how plausible false medical statements hidden in PDF discharge letters can steer LLM summaries toward harmful treatment advice.
aiattackhealthcare+1
BioHacking Village·29 min
Follows four security students as they analyze a Bluetooth Low Energy insulin pump, from threat modeling to spoofing the pump's advertisements to reach the controller.
iotembeddedthreat+2
BioHacking Village·32 min
Marie Mo · Cheyenne · Christian
Follows a pacemaker patient and two students as they reverse engineer a clinic programmer and an implant's firmware, exposing its weaknesses.
reverse-engineeringembeddedvulnerability-research+2
BioHacking Village·14 min
Christine Von Raesfeld
Shows how a rare-disease patient's involvement changed what AI-assisted student teams investigated in a Stanford course built on multi-omic data.
aihealthcareprivacy+1
BioHacking Village·23 min
Andrew Hendela
Shows how automated reverse engineering of medical device firmware maps each function to a clinical subsystem, so changes can be judged by patient safety rather than only by vulnerability.
healthcareembeddedreverse-engineering+2
BioHacking Village·44 min
David Nathans
Panelists from a medical device maker, a hospital and the FDA walk through the first hours and days of a major healthcare cyber incident.
incident-responsehealthcarepanel+2
BioHacking Village·22 min
James Utley
Explains how AI-generated papers, scam journals and gatekeeping networks push fabricated science into the public record, and offers red flags for spotting it.
aitrustrisk+2
BioHacking Village·22 min
Gigi XIaoqing Liu
Shows how an FDA-listed at-home fertility hormone analyzer can be taken over over Bluetooth, and how its app and cloud expose reproductive health records.
healthcareiotdevice+2