Village Presentations·37 min
Michele Fincher
Michele Fincher explores cognitive biases and psychological lapses that lead well-intentioned individuals to bypass security protocols and fall for scams.
cognitive-biaspsychologysocial-engineering+2
Village Presentations
Village Presentations at DEF CON 23 spans technical workshops across Packet Capture, Lock Picking, IoT, Hardware Hacking, Wireless, Vehicle Hacking, Social Engineering, Crypto & Privacy, and BioHacking Villages.
1–24 of 74 talks
Village Presentations·47 min
Vivek Ramachandran
SecurityTube founder Vivek Ramachandran introduces PCAP2XML, parsing complex 802.11 Wi-Fi frames into structured SQLite databases for rapid SQL querying.
wifipcap2xmlsqlite+2
Village Presentations·56 min
Chris Hadnagy
SEVillage founder Chris Hadnagy explores the history and methodology of the DEF CON Social Engineering CTF (SECTF), revealing psychological scoring metrics.
sectfsocial-engineeringosint+2
Village Presentations·28 min
Daniel Miessler
Daniel Miessler presents a comprehensive attack surface mapping methodology for IoT, systematically auditing cloud APIs, mobile apps, local networks, and hardware.
iotattack-surfacemethodology+2
Village Presentations·52 min
Vivek Ramachandran
Vivek Ramachandran demonstrates scripting wpa_supplicant via its UNIX domain socket control interface to automate live attacks on WPA/WPA2 networks.
wpa-supplicantpythonwpa2+2
Village Presentations·24 min
Keoni Gandall
Synthetic biology researcher Keoni Gandall demonstrates designing, assembling, and transforming synthetic DNA in a home laboratory setting.
synthetic-biologydna-assemblyhealthcare+2
Village Presentations·50 min
Alejandro Hernández
Alejandro Hernández audits commercial EEG headsets and Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs), demonstrating radio eavesdropping and subliminal P300 biometric probing.
eegbrain-computer-interfacebci+2
Village Presentations·53 min
Albert H. Carlson · Patrick Doherty
Dr. Albert Carlson and Patrick Doherty analyze statistical pattern leakage in Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) modes, demonstrating non-randomness in ciphertext blocks.
cryptographycbccipher-block-chaining+2
Village Presentations·53 min
Jayson E. Street
Jayson E. Street shares live footage and war stories from physical red teaming engagements, bypassing guards, cloning RFID badges, and walking out with servers.
physical-securityred-teamsocial-engineering+2
Village Presentations·22 min
Nick Sullivan
Cloudflare head of cryptography Nick Sullivan introduces CFSSL, an open-source Go toolkit for automated TLS certificate authority operations and PKI bundling.
cfsslpkitls+2
Village Presentations·19 min
Alex Smith
Alex Smith demonstrates cloning building access cards to subdermal RFID/NFC implants, streamlining physical access auditing while eliminating physical cards.
rfidimplantsbadge-cloning+2
Village Presentations·1 hr 4 min
Wireless Warrior
Wireless Warrior analyzes military Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) and Detection (LPD) radio techniques, demonstrating stealthy amateur RF designs.
lpilpdcovert-wireless+2
Village Presentations·52 min
Grecs
Security analyst Grecs shows how to build an agile, cost-effective threat intelligence repository using Evernote and curated open-source indicators.
threat-intelligenceevernoteosint+2
Village Presentations·38 min
Karl Koscher
Karl Koscher demystifies Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for SDR users, breaking down complex IQ sampling, Fast Fourier Transforms, and digital filters.
dspsdrfourier-transform+2
Village Presentations·44 min
Wayne Crowder
Wayne Crowder draws parallels between professional sport fishing and targeted phishing, illustrating how environmental recon yields high-yield social engineering.
social-engineeringphishingreconnaissance+2
Village Presentations·29 min
Tony Martin
Tony Martin demonstrates exploiting stored cross-site scripting in Network Attached Storage (NAS) web interfaces to gain unauthenticated root shell access.
nasxssprivilege-escalation+2
Village Presentations·50 min
Johan Sosa
Johan Sosa introduces foundational genetic engineering techniques, explaining how community biohackers modify bacteria to express fluorescent proteins.
genetic-engineeringgmosynthetic-biology+2
Village Presentations·37 min
Elliot Brink
Elliot Brink analyzes over one year of telemetry from a globally distributed honeypot sensor network, tracking automated botnet propagation and brute-force trends.
honeypotthreat-intelligencebotnet+2
Village Presentations·51 min
Tim O'Shea
Tim O'Shea presents advanced GNU Radio toolchains for building, testing, visualizing, and manipulating complex wireless physical layers in real time.
gnu-radiodspsdr+2
Village Presentations·41 min
Lokesh Pidawekar
Lokesh Pidawekar shows how to build an affordable, isolated virtual hacking practice range to safely hone penetration testing and exploit development skills.
homelabvirtualizationpentesting+2
Village Presentations·46 min
Marina
Marina explores physical layer attacks on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), analyzing how photon detector blinding and optical side-channels bypass quantum security.
quantum-cryptographyqkdbb84+2
Village Presentations·35 min
David Schwartzberg
David Schwartzberg shares innovative pedagogical approaches for teaching cybersecurity concepts, hands-on logic puzzles, and ethical hacking to kids.
educationkidsstem+2
Village Presentations·51 min
Nikhil Mittal
Nikhil Mittal demonstrates offensive penetration testing with Human Interface Devices (HID), executing covert PowerShell payloads via Teensy microcontrollers.
hidteensykeystroke-injection+2
Village Presentations·46 min
Nikhil Mittal
Nikhil Mittal explores offensive HID hacking, programming low-cost Teensy and Digispark boards to execute stealthy multi-stage post-exploitation attacks.
hidkeystroke-injectionteensy+2