IoT Village·20 min
Weihan Goh · ZhengChao Wen
Explains how a firmware flaw exposing LoRaWAN keys over NFC in industrial sensors grew into a fleet-scale disclosure and mitigation problem.
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DEF CON 34/IoT Village across years
IoT Village DC34
Las Vegas Convention Center · 6–9 August 2026 · 9 talks
IoT Village talks from DEF CON 34.
1–9 of 9 talks
IoT Village·40 min
Andrew Bellini
Shows how a beginner can use AI agents and a cheap bench rig to find and exploit bugs in consumer IoT firmware, using a router as the example.
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IoT Village·39 min
Katie Paxton-Fear
Explores how e-readers from Kindle, Kobo, Android and low-cost ESP32 makers can be jailbroken, customized and reflashed with community firmware.
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IoT Village·42 min
Larry Pesce
Shows how an AI agent driven by an IoT pentest playbook found and chained flaws in a webcam, and what humans must still validate.
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IoT Village·24 min
Tony Turner
Explains how industrial organizations plan, roll out, and sustain OT network segmentation around maintenance limits, legacy systems, vendor control, and operator trust.
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IoT Village·35 min
Simone Bossi · Luca Borzacchiello
Shows how to recover an encrypted IoT camera firmware by reusing the vendor's own decryption routines through targeted function emulation.
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IoT Village·17 min
Metehan Arslan · Samet Berk Simsek
Shows how a cheap ESP32-C3 implant wired into a router's UART and power lines can give remote, persistent serial console access over wireless channels.
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IoT Village·52 min
Carlota Bindner · Deral Heiland
Shows how the cellular modules inside IoT devices can be taken over through their unencrypted UART and USB links to reach backend cloud and private networks.
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IoT Village·58 min
Naomi Brockwell
Shows how consumer IoT devices, apps and embedded SDKs hid surveillance until researchers took them apart, and why that scrutiny matters for privacy.
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