Talks·49 min
Jennifer Shannon
Walks through hands-on pentesting of a deliberately vulnerable API, showing authorization, mass assignment and injection flaws.
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Browse DEF CON 34June 2024 · Richmond, VA, USA
1 session · 29 talks
1–24 of 29 talks
Talks·49 min
Jennifer Shannon
Walks through hands-on pentesting of a deliberately vulnerable API, showing authorization, mass assignment and injection flaws.
Talks·53 min
Luke McOmie
Shows buyers how to compare security service bids and deliverables so a penetration test delivers real value.
Talks·48 min
Jimi Sebree · Evan Grant
Surveys years of consumer router and ISP device flaws, showing repeated bug classes and tangled vendor supply chains behind them.
Talks·49 min
Tucker Mahan
Explores how generative AI media fuels deepfake fraud and voice phishing, and how staff can learn to spot it.
Talks·41 min
Corey Brennan
Shows how a personal hacker grimoire and documentation habits can help security professionals counter impostor syndrome.
Talks·41 min
Ali Ahmad
Explains how fuzzing Oracle Outside In file parsers used by Exchange surfaced memory corruption bugs.
Talks·34 min
Ross Merritt
Teaches improv comedy exercises that build quick thinking, clear communication and composure for social engineering work.
Talks·52 min
Ariyan Suroosh
Walks through planning and carrying out physical penetration tests, from reconnaissance and pretexting to badge cloning.
Talks·1 hr
Caleb Sima
Explores how AI could close the coverage, context and communication gaps behind security leaders' recurring problems.
Talks·32 min
Kymberlee Price
Examines why small and medium businesses struggle with security tooling and argues vendors should build secure-by-default products.
Talks·39 min
Aqeel Yaseen
Introduces mindfulness as a way to handle stress and burnout in security work, with a short guided practice.
Talks·47 min
David J. Bianco
Argues that defenders can shape attacker behavior using the Pyramid of Pain and deception rather than accepting the Defender's Dilemma.
Talks·45 min
Ell Marquez
Uses Brothers Grimm fairy tales to reframe advanced persistent threats as patient, people-driven attacks and social engineering.
Talks·51 min
Kevin Johnson
Shares real pentest stories on flawed web apps, captive portals, physical intrusion and phishing, and how to communicate risk.
Talks·50 min
Caleb Gross · Josh Shomo
Shows how an LLM can rank changed functions in a patch diff to locate the code that fixes a disclosed vulnerability.
Talks·41 min
Qasim Ijaz
Shows defenders how honeypots, decoy accounts and tripwires can slow attackers and reveal their activity inside Windows networks.
Talks·49 min
Ben Haynes
Compares EPSS and CVSS scoring and proposes a transparent method for ranking which vulnerabilities to fix first.
Talks·52 min
Sam Panicker
Shows how to run open-source language models locally and connect them to personal notes for a private AI chat setup.
Talks·42 min
Micah Parks
Shows how a curious user reverse engineers an Android game, a product waitlist, and a pub/sub system to find design flaws.
Talks·39 min
Evan Booth
Surveys generative AI tools and shows how a CTF design team used them for game dialogue, art and voice.
Talks·50 min
AM Grobelny
Walks attendees through a live AWS incident response exercise, from isolating compromised instances to blocking an attack path.
Talks·41 min
David Girvin
Explains how security tools are bought and sold, and where buyers and sellers commonly go wrong.
Talks·43 min
Nick Copi
Shows how a public V8 type confusion bug was turned into working remote code execution in an Electron renderer.
Talks·44 min
Darryl MacLeod
Shows how governance, risk and compliance teams can support offensive security through prioritization, policy alignment and shared communication.