DEF CON Safe Mode

Aerospace Village

34 talks

Aerospace Village focuses on aviation and space cybersecurity, covering satellite communication, avionics architectures, and flight systems security. Talks explore vulnerabilities in avionics protocols, satellite tracking and simulation, GPS and RF spoofing, and collaborative disclosure across the aerospace ecosystem.

AI Village

12 talks

AI Village explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and information security. Talks cover adversarial machine learning, evasion techniques against ML-based malware detectors, deep reinforcement learning vulnerabilities, and privacy-preserving model architectures.

App Sec Village

17 talks

App Sec Village focuses on application security, secure coding practices, API vulnerabilities, and web exploitation. Talks cover dependency security, browser sandbox escapes, threat modeling, Agile security, and developer-oriented security workflows.

Biohacking Village

28 talks

Biohacking Village focuses on healthcare cybersecurity, medical device security, patient safety, and open-source biotechnology. Talks examine vulnerabilities in connected clinical systems, molecular tagging, DIY biology, and collaborative disclosure between researchers and medical device manufacturers.

Blockchain Village

11 talks

Blockchain Village focuses on smart contract vulnerability analysis, decentralized finance (DeFi) exploits, consensus protocol security, crypto wallet auditing, and blockchain node defense.

Blue Team Village

22 talks

Blue Team Village focuses on defensive cybersecurity operations, incident response, network monitoring, and security tooling. Talks cover purple team adversary simulation, endpoint detection engineering, forensic tool demos for the OpenSOC CTF, and real-world breach investigations.

Car Hacking Village

4 talks

Car Hacking Village focuses on automotive cybersecurity, vehicle network architectures, Controller Area Network (CAN) security, and heavy vehicle protocols. Talks examine CAN bus bit-level manipulation, hardware tooling, and legacy vehicle communication standards.

Career Hacking Village

14 talks

Career Hacking Village focuses on cybersecurity career paths, resume craftsmanship, technical interview preparation, leadership transition, executive management, and workforce development.

Contests

4 talks

Contests at DEF CON Safe Mode features conference-wide games, trivia challenges, and interactive competitions including Hacker Jeopardy and Whose Slide Is It Anyway.

Crypto Village

8 talks

Crypto Village focuses on cryptographic protocols, privacy preservation, secure communications, data protection, and surveillance defense.

CTF

4 talks

The DEF CON Safe Mode Capture the Flag (CTF) competition brings together premier hacking teams worldwide for attack-and-defense challenges, game recaps, and live competition commentary.

DC Groups

10 talks

DC Groups at DEF CON Safe Mode features community presentations, project showcases, and security talks hosted by local DEF CON groups from around the world.

Demo Labs

9 talks

Demo Labs at DEF CON Safe Mode showcases open-source security tools, vulnerability scanners, and testing frameworks demonstrated by their creators.

Ethics Village

5 talks

DEF CON Safe Mode Ethics Village features discussions on digital civil liberties, privacy oversight, and ethical frameworks shaping policy and governance in the information security landscape.

Ethics Village (alt)

1 talks

DEF CON Safe Mode Ethics Village alternate playlist features discussions on digital civil liberties, government surveillance oversight, and constitutional protections in cybersecurity.

Hack the Seas Village

8 talks

Hack the Seas Village explores maritime cybersecurity, vessel navigation systems, Automatic Identification System (AIS) RF security, and autonomous underwater vehicle operations.

HACKED

1 talks

DEF CON Hardware Hacking Village lockpicking demonstration at the HACKED event sponsored by DEF CON and Mr. Robot at the 2016 TriBeCa Film Festival.

Ham Radio Village

9 talks

Ham Radio Village explores amateur radio communications, emergency packet radio networks, satellite tracking, Software Defined Radio (SDR) signal processing, and mobile RF operations.

Hardware Hacking Village

4 talks

Hardware Hacking Village focuses on embedded hardware exploration, printed circuit board assembly, soldering fundamentals, and physical microcontroller security. Talks cover soldering workshop kits, HackerBox component builds, foundational hardware hacking techniques, and keystroke injection hardware.

ICS Village

16 talks

ICS Village brings together operators, researchers, and government leaders to address critical infrastructure defense, industrial control systems security, turbine controls, OT forensics, and active defense.

IoT Village

19 talks

IoT Village highlights embedded firmware analysis, smart device reverse engineering, hardware security research tools, and connected device vulnerability disclosure.

Lock Bypass Village

3 talks

Lock Bypass Village focuses on non-destructive physical entry, latch manipulation, custom bypass tool fabrication, alarm sensor defeat, and access-controlled door vulnerabilities.

Lock Picking Village

13 talks

Lock Picking Village focuses on mechanical lock analysis, non-destructive entry, key duplication, safe manipulation, bypass tools, and physical security assessment.

Main Stage

67 talks

Main Stage presentations and live Q&A sessions at DEF CON Safe Mode, covering wireless combo chip escalation, Ripple20 supply chain vulnerabilities, ATM jackpotting, macOS malware, and cloud privilege escalation.

Monero Village

14 talks

Monero Village focuses on financial privacy, decentralized systems, cryptocurrency cryptography, and censorship resistance. Talks cover cross-chain atomic swaps, off-grid mesh networks, electronic badge hacking, and blockchain economics.

New Year's Eve 2020

6 talks

Performances and competitions from DEF CON Safe Mode's inaugural New Year's Eve Party, featuring the Hacker Jeopardy championship tiebreaker and virtual DJ sets.

Packet Hacking Village

1 talks

Packet Hacking Village focuses on network traffic analysis, packet inspection, intrusion detection, capture-the-packet contests, and security monitoring.

Password Village

10 talks

Password Village focuses on password cracking methodologies, GPU acceleration, hash analysis, Active Directory credential attacks, and authentication policy enforcement.

Payment Village

6 talks

Payment Village focuses on financial technology security, payment gateway architecture, Point of Sale (PoS) terminal hardware exploitation, EMV chip transactions, and online banking fraud.

Recon Village

7 talks

Recon Village focuses on open-source intelligence (OSINT), attack surface mapping, infrastructure enumeration, and dark web discovery. Talks examine darknet web spiders, COVID surveillance investigations, cryptomining campaign tracking, and social media text analytics.

Red Team Village

101 talks

Red Team Village at DEF CON Safe Mode focuses on offensive security operations, adversary emulation, evasion tradecraft, payload creation, physical implants, and purple teaming.

Rogues Village

3 talks

Rogues Village focuses on deception tradecraft, psychological misdirection, magician linguistics, street cons, pickpocket mechanics, and geospatial telemetry manipulation.

Voting Village

32 talks

Voting Village focuses on the cybersecurity, physical integrity, and policy challenges of election infrastructure, voting machines, and ballot return systems. Talks address vulnerabilities in electronic voting applications, vote-by-mail security, foreign influence operations, and federal coordination to safeguard democratic elections.

Wireless Village

5 talks

Wireless Village focuses on radio frequency security, Wi-Fi auditing, Bluetooth Low Energy exploitation, mobile wardriving, and software-defined radio tooling.