Talks·48 min
Kyle King
Explores how generative AI lowers the bar for phishing, deepfakes and faster attacks, and how defenders can respond.
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Browse DEF CON 34Richmond, VA, USA · June 2025 · 28 talks
Talks from RVAsec 14 (2025).
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Talks·48 min
Kyle King
Explores how generative AI lowers the bar for phishing, deepfakes and faster attacks, and how defenders can respond.
Talks·49 min
Nicholas Popovich · Mike Bailey
Shows how misconfigured ServiceNow deployments enable privilege escalation and code execution, and how defenders can detect them.
Talks·48 min
Dan Holden
Looks ahead at how the CISO role may shift toward business-focused risk communication, quantification, and board accountability.
Talks·35 min
Michael Roytman
Argues that enterprises should train risk models on their own data and shows how local models can outperform global vulnerability scoring.
Talks·49 min
Bobby Turnage Jr.
Explains the legal and practical considerations an organization faces when managing a data breach and how to prepare.
Talks·49 min
John Stoner
Shows how the GraphRunner toolkit maps to Entra ID and Office 365 attack stages and the logs that reveal them.
Talks·50 min
Nick Copi
Shows how JavaScript JSON path libraries allow sandbox escapes and remote code execution across widely used products.
Talks·51 min
Christopher Cruz
Presents a government view of public interest cybersecurity and a layered framework for delivering it to communities.
Talks·44 min
Jeremy Dorrough
Shows how security staff can frame costs and returns in financial terms to win budgets from non-technical stakeholders.
Talks·50 min
Revisits internal domain name collisions, where private DNS names overlap with public ones and create security risk.
Talks·54 min
David Young
Describes day-to-day security work on internal teams and as a consultant, from scoping to reporting.
Talks·38 min
Alain Petit
Explains how key types, life cycle stages and key handling decide whether encryption claims in vendor products hold up.
Talks·51 min
Morgan Stuart
Walks through running open-weight LLMs locally and the risks they introduce, including poisoning, prompt injection and agentic tool use.
Talks·51 min
Vennard Wright
Explores how camera-based AI is used for public safety and where its privacy, bias and legal risks lie.
Talks·38 min
Kevin Massey
Walks through a kernel CTF challenge, from initial recon and source review to heap leaks and kernel ROP.
Talks·44 min
Christina Johns
Shows how malware triage can progress through scripts, static tools, sandboxes, and YARA before any disassembly.
Talks·27 min
Tells the story of one person helping a friend move out of homelessness.
Talks·45 min
Travis Altman
Explains how to turn purple teaming from a concept into a working service, including roles, exercise types and reporting.
Talks·32 min
Caleb Crable
Shows how permissive SPF records on vendor subdomains let attackers spoof email, and how to find them.
Talks·54 min
Stacy Aitken
Explains why an incident response plan matters and what it should cover, from communication chains to insurance and compliance needs.
Talks·50 min
Matthew Fisher
Walks through fast, low-effort internal network tactics for harvesting credentials and escalating toward domain admin.
Talks·49 min
Paul Asadoorian
Argues that security professionals benefit from using Linux as their daily desktop, with myth-busting and practical tips.
Talks·36 min
Olivia Gallucci
Walks through finding, building and reversing Apple's open source macOS components as a starting point for internals research.