JD Supra

DefCon Chronicles: Sven Cattell’s AI Village, ‘Hack the Future’ Pentest and His Unique Vision of Deep Learning and Cybersecurity

Sven Cattell, shown above, is the founder of a key event at DefCon 31, the AI Village. The Village attracted thousands of people eager to take part in its Hack The Future challenge. At the Village I ...
Nextgov

DEF CON bans hackers, technologists named in Epstein documents

Vincenzo Iozzo, Joichi Ito and Pablos Holman are barred from future attendance after Justice Department files revealed their roles in efforts to secure Jeffrey Epstein’s access to DEF CON. The DEF CON ...
Business Wire

SeedAI’s “Hack the Future” Series Builds on the Success of the Generative Red Team Challenge at DEF CON 31 and Will Drive Artificial Intelligence Engagement Deeper Into ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SeedAI announced today Hack the Future, a new series of events to drive artificial intelligence (AI) learning, engagement, and training deeper into communities ...
JD Supra

DefCon Chronicles: Hackers Respond to President Biden’s Unprecedented Request to Come to DefCon to Hack the World for Fun and Profit

Hackers responded to the White House call by the thousands, including reporter-AI-hacker Ralph Losey, to try to break existing software in open contests. Ralph joined in the AI hack attack, but there ...
VentureBeat

Legions of DEF CON hackers will attack generative AI models

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More At the 31st annual DEF CON this weekend, thousands of hackers will join ...
TechCrunch

The best hacks and security research from Black Hat and Def Con 2024

Thousands of hackers, researchers and security professionals descended on the Black Hat and Def Con security conferences in Las Vegas this week, an annual pilgrimage aimed at sharing the latest ...
NPR

Hackers gather for Def Con in Las Vegas

Thousands of hackers are gathered in Las Vegas this weekend at Def Con. Artificial intelligence is a big focus of this year's conference. This weekend, thousands of hackers are gathering in Las Vegas ...
Homeland Security Today

DEFCON Kids Hack Voting Devices; Election Officials Dismiss ‘Pseudo Environment’ Test

A hacking session at the DEFCON 26 event Thursday in Las Vegas resulted in electronic voting machines being compromised, with children able to amend voter details in just a few minutes –but the ...
Dark Reading

DEF CON's AI Village Pits Hackers Against LLMs to Find Flaws

DEF CON 2023 — Las Vegas — DEF CON's most buzzed-about event, the AI Village, let thousands of hackers take their best shot at making one of eight different large language models (LLMs), including ...
Business Wire

Carnegie Mellon’s Hacking Team Wins Third Straight, Record Eighth Overall DEF CON Capture-the-Flag Title

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon University’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its third consecutive title, ...
WeLiveSecurity

DEF CON 31: US DoD urges hackers to go and hack ‘AI’

Throughout Black Hat 2023 and DEF CON 31, artificial intelligence (AI) and the use of LLMs has been a trending topic and given the hype since the release of ChatGPT just nine months ago then it’s not ...
TechSpot

Hack-A-Sat 4 contest will let white hat hackers toy with a satellite in space

Why it matters: At this year's summer edition of the DEFCON conference, which is scheduled for mid-August in Las Vegas, security professionals and white hat hackers will have the chance to try the ...