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DEF CON Badgelife: The ESP Rules All

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Badgelife is the celebration of independent hardware creators, working for months at a time to bring custom electronic badges to conferences around the world. This year at DEF CON, Badgelife is huge. It’s not just because this year was supposed to feature a non-electronic badge, and it’s not because the official badge imploded last month — Badgelife is all about people spending most of the year designing, and manufacturing hardware, culminating in one very special weekend.

[Garrett] owns Hacker Warehouse, a store providing all kinds of neat hacker tools ranging from software-defined radios to lock pick sets to side channel …read more

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DEF CON Badgelife: The ESP Rules All

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Badgelife is the celebration of independent hardware creators, working for months at a time to bring custom electronic badges to conferences around the world. This year at DEF CON, Badgelife is huge. It’s not just because this year was supposed to feature a non-electronic badge, and it’s not because the official badge imploded last month — Badgelife is all about people spending most of the year designing, and manufacturing hardware, culminating in one very special weekend.

[Garrett] owns Hacker Warehouse, a store providing all kinds of neat hacker tools ranging from software-defined radios to lock pick sets to side channel …read more

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How To Stay Secure At Hacker Conferences

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Having Fun While Being Diligent Hacker cons, such as the upcoming Blackhat, BSides LV and Defcon are really fun experiences, great networking opportunities and a chance to learn something new about security. While we have fun at these conferences, we must remember not to lose site of our personal security and/or OPSEC. Recently we ran […]

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Hack Naked TV – August 24, 2016

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Juniper joins Cisco and Fortigate, US and Canada store were infected by malware, and DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge that ran at DEFCON.Visit http://hacknaked.tv to get all the latest episodes! http://traffic.libsyn.com/hntvaudio/Hack_Naked_TV_-_August_24_… Continue reading Hack Naked TV – August 24, 2016→

Pwning With Sewing Needles

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If you don’t have root, you don’t own a device, despite what hundreds of Internet of Things manufacturers would tell you. Being able to access and write to that embedded Linux system in your new flashy gadget is what you need to truly own a device, and unfortunately this is a relatively uncommon feature. At this year’s DEF CON, [Brad Dixon] unveiled a technique that pwns a device using only a sewing needle, multimeter probe, or a paperclip. No, it won’t work on every device, and the devices this technique will work with are poorly designed. That doesn’t mean it …read more

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DEFCON Thermometer

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Redditor [mulishadan] — a fan of the movie WarGames — has created a singular thermostat in the form of a Defcon alert meter.

Looking to learn some new skills while building, [mulishadan] tried their hand at MIG welding the 16g cold-rolled plate steel into the distinctive shape. A second attempt produced the desired result, adding a 1/4-inch foam core and painting the exterior. Individual LEDs were used at first for lighting, but were replaced with flexible LED strips which provided a more even glow behind the coloured acrylic. A Particle Photon board queries the Weather Underground API via Wi-Fi in …read more

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