NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander speaks at Def Con 20 in 2012. In addition to unveiling wholesale data collection systems, it appears that Edward Snowden’s revelations may now be getting in the way ...

All it took was a pandemic, but the long-running joke finally became a reality: DEF CON is canceled. The annual hacker conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, typically draws tens of thousands of attendees ...

When the Benevolent Bureau of Birds runs the DEF CON Capture the Flag finals this weekend, they will be presiding over something that did not exist two years ago: a competitive environment where ...

Two weeks ago, news broke of an incredible abuse of power from the National Security Agency. A DEF CON talk was cancelled, and speculation raged that information was not free. This was the ProxyHam, a ...

In his classic 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, journalist Steven Levy traces the outline of a “hacker ethic” in an effort to determine what unites this amorphous group of ...

The fallout from DEF CON organizers’ decision to ask the feds to stay away from this year’s event has been mixed–and predictable. For over two decades DEF CON has been an open nexus of hacker culture, ...

Last year NSA Director Keith Alexander keynoted the annual DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas. This year, DEF CON organizers warn that U.S. government Federal agents are explicitly not welcome.

LAS VEGAS—Famed hacker convention DEF CON returns to Las Vegas this year at Caesars Forum as it celebrates its 30th year running. Normally attracting thousands to tens of thousands of visitors, the ...