Talks·51 min
Organizers and their children explain how a volunteer-run hacker conference is built, funded, and finally wound down.
DEF CON 34 talks are here: 354 talks, summarized and searchable.
Browse DEF CON 34January 2025 · Washington, DC, USA
1 session · 49 talks
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Talks·51 min
Organizers and their children explain how a volunteer-run hacker conference is built, funded, and finally wound down.
Talks·49 min
Jay Beale · Mark Manning
Walks through how a benchmark-compliant Kubernetes cluster with no flagged CVEs can still be taken over through overprivileged roles.
Talks·52 min
Deviant Ollam
Traces safe and vault attacks from Cold War espionage teams to modern lock manipulation and drilling.
Talks·12 min
nyxgeek
Shows how public Microsoft 365 endpoints expose usernames and employee availability at scale, with survey data to back it up.
Talks·13 min
Meghan Jacquot
Shares how to start and run a book club, from picking titles and discussion questions to building community around reading.
Talks·47 min
Michael Ossmann
Walks through open-source FPGA tools for building USB devices, analyzing USB traffic, and emulating hardware.
Talks·42 min
Robert Weiss
Traces hacker culture from 19th-century lock picking and wireless hacks to MIT pranks, early hacker ethics, and today's hacker spaces.
Talks·21 min
Estelle Ruellan
Shows how infostealer logs exposed command-and-control operators whose own machines were infected, revealing a malware ecosystem.
Talks·21 min
Brittney Argirakis · Chapin Bryce
Shows how a triage tool maps exposed AWS resources to answer early incident response questions quickly.
Talks·18 min
David Cheeseman
Shows how a covert channel can hide encrypted messages inside QUIC connection ID fields to evade entropy-based detection.
Talks·26 min
Russell Handorf
Shows how to plan a deception operation, using a rural trespasser case study to illustrate a practical framework.
Talks·50 min
Bil Swearingen · Larry Pesce
Shows how to build a low-cost ESP32 device that detects nearby Bluetooth Low Energy trackers such as AirTags.
Talks·50 min
Brett Hawkins · Chris Thompson
Shows how stolen cloud tokens let attackers steal models from MLOps platforms, and how to detect that activity.
Talks·22 min
Luke Berndt · Mike Chadwick
Shows how to build a low-cost ADS-B system that automatically points a PTZ camera at passing aircraft.
Talks·20 min
Guilherme Santos
Surveys how attackers poison, invert and evade machine learning models, from prompt injection to adversarial patches.
Talks·53 min
Carol Fenley · Jonathan Klene · Liz Warden · Desiree Saturnly · Jessica Wilkerson
A mock arbitration stages a dispute over liability after an eyewear joint venture's software is breached.
Talks·54 min
Greg Conti · Danielle Scalera
Traces twenty years of ShmooCon talks and turns them into a labeled taxonomy, dataset and visualizations.
Talks·18 min
Richo Butts
Follows a home-battery owner who reverse engineers an Android app to control a solar battery's smart relay for EV charging.
Talks·13 min
Kali Fencl
Shows how security practitioners and marketers can team up to turn research into credible, buyer-relevant content.
Talks·21 min
Ian
Describes how volunteer IT teams restore connectivity to communities after disasters and how to join the ITDRC.
Talks·27 min
Matthew Wollenweber
Shows how to catch lookalike domains from public registry data before attackers start phishing or sending fake invoices.
Talks·49 min
Olivier Bilodeau · Eric Clay
Traces how infostealer malware harvests credentials and session cookies, and how the Redline operation was disrupted.
Talks·22 min
Christian Paquin
Explains how cryptographically signed content credentials like C2PA can help verify whether online images and videos are authentic.