Talks·18 min
Carson Zimmerman
Presents 14 questions for judging how a security operations center is growing and performing.
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Browse DEF CON 34January 2024 · Washington, DC, USA
1 session · 48 talks
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Talks·18 min
Carson Zimmerman
Presents 14 questions for judging how a security operations center is growing and performing.
Talks·23 min
Harley Geiger · Charley Snyder
Explains a new legal defense fund that pays lawyers for good-faith security researchers facing threats over their vulnerability work.
Talks·50 min
Ryan Ashley · Ari Chadda
Shows how a machine learning model can sit inside a man-in-the-middle attack and alter camera images in transit.
Talks·23 min
Drew hoodoer Kirkpatrick
Shows how a client-side JavaScript payload can persist in web apps and capture user activity during red team engagements.
Talks·44 min
EVM
Explores the undocumented Elbrus processor architecture and a C++ vtable overflow exploit ported to its compiler.
Talks·22 min
Andréanne Bergeron
Analyzes brute-force RDP login attempts on an exposed Windows system to reveal when attackers work, pause and slow down.
Talks·51 min
Sean Gallagher
Traces how romance and crypto investment scams are built, from lure messages to fake trading apps and DeFi wallet drains.
Talks·53 min
XenoKovah
Shows how passive and active Bluetooth probing can identify the chip, firmware and vendor behind nearby devices.
Talks·48 min
Ben Kallus · Prashant Anantharaman
Shows how HTTP parser mismatches in servers and proxies enable access control bypasses and cache poisoning.
Talks·13 min
Andrew Januszak · Keith Ericson
Explains how canary tokens feed an ELK stack and ElastAlert 2 to raise near real-time alerts on phishing activity.
Talks·22 min
Brian Alexander
Walks through fuzzing Memcached's proxy, exploiting a stack overflow, and writing a network signature to detect it.
Talks·51 min
Liz Wharton · Danette Edwards · Cyndi Gula
Explores how SEC enforcement, cyber disclosure rules and personal liability are reshaping the role of CISOs after recent breaches.
Talks·16 min
Ian Foster
Explains lame DNS delegations and dependency trees, then demonstrates a tool that tests every resolution path.
Talks·48 min
Seth Jenkins
Maps overlooked Android chipset drivers beyond the GPU and walks one kernel race bug through to root.
Talks·51 min
Aaron Brown
Shows how homophones, Unicode tricks and ARIA labels make screen readers speak misleading domains and messages.
Talks·20 min
William
Shows how untrusted build code escapes SaaS trust boundaries through PATH, environment variables, git hooks, and LD_PRELOAD.
Talks·50 min
Shane Angel · Wendy Knox Everette
Argues that the FedRAMP cloud authorization program adds burdens without improving security, and suggests how it could change.
Talks·50 min
Dillon Franke
Walks through fuzzing macOS Mach IPC handlers to find low-level vulnerabilities and possible sandbox escape paths.
Talks·50 min
Ian Harris · Marcel Carlsson
Shows how template-based fuzzing with LLM paraphrasing finds jailbreak prompts that slip past chatbot safety guardrails.
Talks·23 min
Luke Berndt
Shows how passive listening to encrypted public safety trunked radio systems leaks metadata about talk groups and radio activity.
Talks·51 min
Aleksandar Nikolic · Travis Goodspeed
Shows how film can replace a missing digital sensor when imaging electronics with a cabinet X-ray machine.
Talks·51 min
Casey Ellis · Katie Msurus · Leonard Bailey · Harley Guyer
Panelists debate whether the security community can agree on voluntary norms for good-faith vulnerability research.
Talks·17 min
Dan Nagle
Shows how a network audio player's UDP and TCP protocols are reverse engineered, replayed, and rebuilt in Packet Sender.