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  1. Rob Bathurst (evilrob) & Jeff Thomas (xaphan) - Canary: Keeping Your Dick Pics Safe(r)

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Evilrob-Xaphan-TLS-Canary-Keeping-Your-Dick-Pics-Safer.pdf Canary: Keeping Your Dick Pics Safe(r) Rob Bathurst (evilrob) Security Engineer and Penetration Tester Jeff Thomas (xaphan) Senior...

  2. Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye: Further Explorations In Data Destruction

    And That's How I Lost My Other Eye: Further Explorations In Data Destruction Zoz Robotics Engineer and Security Researcher How much more paranoid are you now than you were four years ago? Warrantless surveillance and large-scale data confiscation have brought fear of the feds filching your files...

  3. Zack Fasel - Seeing through the Fog

    Seeing through the Fog Zack Fasel Urbane Security Yes. "The Cloud" (drink). Even though many of us would much like to see use of public clouds decline, they're not going away any time soon. And with such, a plethora of companies now have revolutionary new solutions to solve your "cloud problems"....

  4. Terrell McSweeny & Ashkan Soltani - How to Hack Government: Technologists as Policy Makers

    How to Hack Government: Technologists as Policy Makers Terrell McSweeny Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission Ashkan Soltani Chief Technologist, Federal Trade Commission As the leading federal agency responsible for protecting your privacy rights online, technology is at the core of the Federal...

  5. Sean Pierce - Abusing native Shims for Post Exploitation

    Abusing native Shims for Post Exploitation Sean Pierce Technical Intelligence Analyst for iSIGHT Partners Shims offer a powerful rootkit-like framework that is natively implemented in most all modern Windows Operating Systems. This talk will focus on the wide array of post-exploitation options…

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  6. Scott Erven and Mark Collao - Medical Devices - Pwnage and Honeypots

    Medical Devices: Pwnage and Honeypots Scott Erven Associate Director, Protiviti Mark Collao Security Consultant, Protiviti We know medical devices are exposed to the Internet both directly and indirectly, so just how hard is it to take it to the next step in an attack and gain remote…

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  7. Runa A. Sandvik & Michael Auger - When IoT attacks - Hacking a Linux-powered Rifle

    When IoT attacks: hacking a Linux-powered rifle Runa A. Sandvik Michael Auger TrackingPoint is an Austin startup known for making precision-guided firearms. These firearms ship with a tightly integrated system coupling a rifle, an ARM-powered scope running a modified version of Linux, and a…

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  8. Robert Graham and David Maynor - HamSammich – long distance proxying over radio

    HamSammich – long distance proxying over radio Robert Graham Erratasec.com David Maynor Erratasec.com The ProxyHam talk was mysteriously canceled. However, it’s easy to replicate the talk from the press coverage. In this talk, we propose “HamSammich”, creating a point-to-point link in order to...

  9. Richard Thieme - Hacking the Human Body/brain: Identity Shift, the Shape of a New Self, and Humanity 2.0

    Hacking the Human Body/brain: Identity Shift, the Shape of a New Self, and Humanity 2.0 Richard Thieme Author and Professional Speaker, ThiemeWorks This presentation is beyond fiction. Current research in neuroscience and the extension and augmentation of senses is proceeding in directions that...

  10. Peter Shipley - Insteon - False Security and Deceptive Documentation

    Insteon' False Security And Deceptive Documentation Peter Shipley Security Researcher Ryan Gooler Insteon is a leading home automation solution for controlling lights, locks, alarms, and much more. More than forty percent of homes with automation installed use Insteon. For the last fifteen years,...

  11. Panel - ThunderStrike 2- Sith Strike

    ThunderStrike 2: Sith Strike Trammel Hudson Vice President, Two Sigma Investments Xeno Kovah Co-founder, LegbaCore, LLC Corey Kallenberg Co-Founder, LegbaCore, LLC The number of vulnerabilities in firmware disclosed as affecting Wintel PC vendors has been rising over the past few years. Although...

  12. Panel - Licensed to Pwn - Weaponization and Regulation of Security Research

    Licensed to Pwn: The Weaponization and Regulation of Security Research Jim Denaro Dave Aitel Matt Blaze Nate Cardozo Mara Tam Catherine “Randy” Wheeler Security research is under attack. Updates to the Wassenaar Arrangement in 2013 established among its 41 member nations an agreement to place a...

  13. Panel - Let's Encrypt - Minting Free Certificates to Encrypt the Entire Web

    Let's Encrypt - Minting Free Certificates to Encrypt the Entire Web Peter Eckersley Electronic Frontier Foundation James Kasten Electronic Frontier Foundation Yan Zhu Electronic Frontier Foundation Let's Encrypt is a new certificate authority that is being launched by EFF in collaboration with...

  14. Panel - Contests Closing Ceremonies

    : Presenting the results and awards for the DEF CON 23 Contests and Events.

  15. Matt Cagle & Eric Cheng - Who Will Rule the Sky - The Coming Drone Policy War

    Who Will Rule the Sky? The Coming Drone Policy Wars Matt Cagle Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Attorney, ACLU of Northern California Eric Cheng General Manager, DJI SF and Director of Aerial Imaging, DJI Your private drone opens up limitless possibilities – how can manufacturers and...

  16. Marc Rogers & Kevin Mahaffey - How to Hack a Tesla Model S

    How to Hack a Tesla Model S Marc Rogers Principle Security Researcher for CloudFlare Kevin Mahaffey CTO of Lookout Inc The Tesla Model S is the most connected car in the world. It might surprise you to hear that it is also one of the most secure. In this talk we will walk you through the...

  17. Luke Young - Investigating the Practicality and Cost of Abusing Memory Errors with DNS

    Investigating the Practicality and Cost of Abusing Memory Errors with DNS Luke Young Information Security Engineer, Hydrant Labs LLC In a world full of targeted attacks and complex exploits this talk explores an attack that can simplified so even the most non-technical person can understand, yet...

  18. Geoff Walton & Dave Kennedy - Pivoting Without Rights – Introducing Pivoter

    Pivoting Without Rights – Introducing Pivoter Geoff Walton Senior Security Consultant for Cleveland-based TrustedSec Dave Kennedy (ReL1K/HackingDave), founder of TrustedSec and Binary Defense Systems One of the most challenging steps of a penetration test is popping something and not having full...

  19. Francis Brown and Shubham Shah - RFIDiggity - Guide to Hacking HF NFC and UHF RFID

    RFIDiggity: Pentester Guide to Hacking HF/NFC and UHF RFID Francis Brown Partner - Bishop Fox Shubham Shah Security Analyst at Bishop Fox Have you ever attended an RFID hacking presentation and walked away with more questions than answers? This talk will finally provide practical guidance for...

  20. Damon Small - Beyond the Scan: The Value Proposition of Vulnerability Assessment - 101 Track

    Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Damon-Small-Beyond-the-Scan.pdf Beyond the Scan: The Value Proposition of Vulnerability Assessment Damon Small Security Researcher Vulnerability Assessment is, by some, regarded as one of the...

  21. DaKahuna & satanklawz - Introduction to SDR and the Wireless Village - 101 Track

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-DaKahuna-Satanlawz-Introduction-to-SDR-and-Wifi-Village.pdf Introduction to SDR and the Wireless Village DaKahuna satanklawz In many circumstances, we all have to wear different hats when...

  22. Tottenkoph & IrishMASMS - Hackers Hiring Hackers - How to Do Things Better - 101 Track

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Tottenkoph-IrishMASMS-Hackers-Hiring-Hacker.pdf Hackers Hiring Hackers - How to Do Things Better Tottenkoph Security Consultant, Rapid7 IrishMASMS Hacker There are a lot of talks about how…

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  23. 1057 - Responsible Incident: Covert Keys Against Subverted Technology Latencies, Especially Yubikey - RICKASTLEY

    Responsible Incident: Covert Keys Against Subverted Technology Latencies, Especially Yubikey LosT We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you...

  24. Dr. Phil Polstra - Hacker in the Wires - 101 Track

    Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Phil-Polstra-Hacker-in-the-Wires.pdf Extras here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Phil-Polstra-Extras.rar Hacker in the Wires Dr. Phil Polstra...

  25. Marina Krotofil & Jason Larsen - Rocking the Pocket Book: Hacking Chemical Plant for Competition and Extortion

    Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Marina-Krotofil-Jason-Larsen-Rocking-the-Pocketbook-Hacking-Chemical-Plants-UPDATED.pdf Whitepaper here:...

  26. John Seymour - "Quantum" Classification of Malware

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-John-Seymour-Quantum-Classification-of-Malware-UPDATED.pdf Whitepaper here:...

  27. Topher Timzen & Ryan Allen - Hijacking Arbitrary .NET Application Control Flow - 101 Track

    Materials Available Here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Topher-Timzen-Ryan-Allen-Hijacking-Arbitrary-NET-Application-Control-Flow-UPDATED.pdf Whitepaper here:...

  28. Charlie Miller - Remote exploitation of an unaltered passenger vehicle

    Remote Exploitation of an Unaltered Passenger Vehicle Charlie Miller Security engineer at Twitter Chris Valasek Director of Vehicle Security Research at IOActive Although the hacking of automobiles is a topic often discussed, details regarding successful attacks, if ever made public, are...

  29. AmmonRa - How to hack your way out of home detention

    Materials Available Here; https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-ammonRA-How-to-hack-your-way-out-of-home-detention-UPDATED.pdf How to hack your way out of home detention AmmonRa Security Researcher Home detention and criminal tracking systems are used in...

  30. Aaron Grattafiori - Linux Containers: Future or Fantasy? - 101 Track

    Materials Available Here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF CON 23/DEF CON 23 presentations/DEFCON-23-Aaron-Grattafiori-Linux-Containers-Future-or-Fantasy-UPDATED.pdf Linux Containers: Future or Fantasy? Aaron Grattafiori Principal Security Consultant, iSEC Partners/NCC Group Containers, a pinnacle of...

  31. Patrick "Unregistered436" McNeil & "Snide" Owen - Sorry, Wrong Number: Mysteries Of The Phone System - Past and Present - 101 Track

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Patrick-McNeil-Owen-Sorry-Wrong-Number.pdf https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Patrick-McNeil-Guidelines-For-Securing-Your-VoIP-PBX.pdf Sorry,...

  32. Miaubiz - Put on your tinfo_t hat if youre my type

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Miaubiz-Put-on-Your-Tinfo_t-Hat.pdf Put on your tinfo_t hat if you're my type miaubiz Senior Dr. at Azimuth Security The IDA Pro APIs for interacting with type information are full of...

  33. Nir Valtman & Moshe Ferber - From 0 To Secure In 1 Minute — Securing IAAS

    Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Nir-Valtman-Moshe-Ferber-From-zero-to-secure-in-1-minute-UPDATED.pdf From 0 To Secure In 1 Minute — Securing IAAS Nir Valtman CISO – Retail, NCR Moshe Ferber Co-chairman of the board, Cloud...

  34. Vivek Ramachandran - Chigula — A framework for Wi-Fi Intrusion Detection and Forensics

    Chigula — a framework for Wi-Fi Intrusion Detection and Forensics Vivek Ramachandran, Founder, SecurityTube.net and Pentester Academy Most of Wi-Fi Intrusion Detection & Forensics is done today using million dollar products or spending hours applying filters in Wireshark :) Chigula aims to solve...

  35. Aditya K Sood - Dissecting the Design of SCADA Web Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) - Hunting Vulnerabilities

    Dissecting the Design of SCADA Web Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) - Hunting Vulnerabilities Aditya K Sood Architect - Threat Research Labs, Elastica inc. Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) are the subsets of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. HMIs are control panels that...

  36. Jose Selvi - Breaking SSL Using Time Synchronisation Attacks

    Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Jose-Selvi-Breaking-SSL-Using-Time-Synchronisation-Attacks.pdf Breaking SSL Using Time Synchronisation Attacks Jose Selvi Senior Security Consultant, NCC Group What time? When? Who is first?...

  37. Bart Kulach (Bartlomiej Jakub Kulach - Hack the Legacy! IBM i (aka AS/400) Revealed

    Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Bart-Kulach-Hack-the-Legacy-IBMi-revealed.pdf Hack the Legacy! IBM i (aka AS/400) Revealed. Bart Kulach (Bartlomiej Jakub Kulach) Security Researcher Have you ever heard about the famous…

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  38. Ryan Mitchell - Separating Bots from the Humans

    Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Ryan-Mitchell-Separating-Bots-from-Humans.pdf Separating Bots from the Humans Ryan Mitchell Software Engineer, LinkeDrive Inc There’s an escalating arms race between bots and the people who...

  39. Marte L0ge - Tell me who you are and I will tell you your lock patter

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Marte-L0ge-I-will-Tell-you-your-Lock-Pattern-UPDATED.pdf Tell me who you are and I will tell you your lock pattern Marte Løge Security Researcher You are predictable. Your passwords are...

  40. Jean-Philippe Aumasson - Quantum Computers vs. Computers Security

    Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Phillip-Aumasson-Quantum-Computers-vs-Computers-Security.pdf Quantum Computers vs. Computers Security Jean-Philippe Aumasson Principal Cryptographer, Kudelski Security, Switzerland We've…

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  41. Andres Blanco & Andres Gazzoli - 80211 Massive Monitoring

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Andres-Blanco-802.11-Massive-Monitoring-UPDATED.pdf 802.11 Massive Monitoring Andres Blanco Sr Researcher, Core Security Andres Gazzoli Sr Developer, Core Security Wireless traffic analysis...

  42. Panel - DEF CON Comedy Inception: How many levels deep can we go?

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Panel-Comedy-Inception-Amanda-Berlin-Blue-Team-Hell.pdf DEF CON Comedy Inception: How many levels deep can we go? Larry Pesce Senior Security Analyst, InGuardians Chris Sistrunk...

  43. Patrick Wardle - Stick That In Your root Pipe and Smoke It

    Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Patrick-Wardle-Stick-that-in-your-(Root)Pipe-and-Smoke-it-UPDATED.pdf Stick That In Your (root)Pipe & Smoke It Patrick Wardle Director of R&D, Synack You may ask; "why would Apple add an XPC...

  44. Ryan O'Neill - Advances in Linux Process Forensics Using ECFS

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Ryan-O%27Neil-Advances-in-Linux-Forensics-ECFS.pdf Advances in Linux Process Forensics Using ECFS Ryan O'Neill Security Consultant, Leviathan Security Group Many hackers today are using...

  45. Teddy Reed & Nick Anderson - Hardware and Trust Security: Explain it like I’m 5

    Hardware and Trust Security: Explain it like I’m 5 Teddy Reed Security Engineer Facebook Nick Anderson Research Scientist There are a lot of presentations and suggestions that indicate HSMs, TrustZone, AMT, TrEE, SecureBoot, Attestation, TPMs, IOMMU, DRTM, etc. are silver bullets. What does it…

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  46. Daniel “unicornFurnace” Crowley & Damon Smith - Bugged Files: Is Your Document Telling on You?

    Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Daniel-Crowley-Damon-Smith-Bugged-Files.pdf Bugged Files: Is Your Document Telling on You? Daniel “unicornFurnace” Crowley Security Consultant, NCC Group Damon Smith Associate Security...

  47. Weston Hecker - Goodbye Memory Scraping Malware: Hold Out Till "Chip And Pin”

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Weston-Hecker-Goodbye-Memory-Scraping-Malware.pdf Goodbye Memory Scraping Malware: Hold Out Till "Chip And Pin” Weston Hecker SR Pentester, Sr Systems Security Analyst at "KLJ Security”…

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  48. Ken Westin - Confessions of a Professional Cyber Stalker

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Ken-Westin-Confessions-of-a-Cyberstalker.pdf Confessions of a Professional Cyber Stalker Ken Westin Sr. Security Analyst with Tripwire Inc. For several years I developed and utilized various...

  49. Colin O'Flynn - Don't Whisper my Chips: Sidechannel and Glitching for Fun and Profit

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Colin-O%27Flynn-Dont-Whisper-My-Chips.pdf Don't Whisper my Chips: Sidechannel and Glitching for Fun and Profit Colin O'Flynn Dalhousie University If you thought the security practices of...

  50. Joshua Smith - High-Def Fuzzing: Exploring Vulnerabilities in HDMI-CEC

    Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Joshua-Smith-High-Def-Fuzzing-Exploitation-Over-HDMI-CEC-UPDATED.pdf High-Def Fuzzing: Exploring Vulnerabilities in HDMI-CEC Joshua Smith Senior Security Researcher, HP Zero Day Initiative…

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