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DEF CON Hacking Conference

DEF CON 21 Archive

Was August 1st-4th, 2013 at the Rio Hotel & Casino

Speakers & Presentations


LosT

Welcome and Making of the DEF CON 21 Badges

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Joe Grand, Mark 'Smitty' Smith, LosT, RenderMan, FirmWarez

Hardware Hacking with Microcontrollers: A Panel Discussion

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Lockheed, Roamer, Naifx

Hacking Management: From Operations to Command

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Beaker, Flipper

The Ninjaneers: Getting started in Building Your Own Robots for World Domination.

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LosT

Decrypting DEFCON: Foundations Behind Some of the Games Hackers Play

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Terrence "Tuna" Gareau

Intro to Web Application Hacking

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AlxRogan

Oil & Gas Infosec 101

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DaKahuna, RMellendick

Wireless Penetration Testing 101 & Wireless Contesting

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Anch

Pentesters Toolkit

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ZeroChaos

Meet Pentoo, the Longest Running Pen-testing Linux Distro

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Bogdan Alecu : UPDATED :

Business logic flaws in mobile operators services

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Chema Alonso : UPDATED :

Fear the Evil FOCA: IPv6 attacks in Internet connections

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Amber Baldet : UPDATED :

Suicide Risk Assessment and Intervention Tactics

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Remy Baumgarten

Combatting Mac OSX/iOS Malware with Data Visualization

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Scott Behrens, Brent Bandelgar

MITM All The IPv6 Things

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Joe Bialek

PowerPwning: Post-Exploiting By Overpowering PowerShell

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Zak Blacher

Transcending Cloud Limitations by Obtaining Inner Piece

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Todd Bonnewell

Made Open: Hacking Capitalism

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Sam Bowne

Data Evaporation from SSDs

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Sam Bowne, Matthew Prince

Evil DoS Attacks and Strong Defenses

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Francis Brown : UPDATED :

RFID Hacking: Live Free or RFID Hard

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bughardy, Eagle1753 : UPDATED :

OTP, It won't save you from free rides!

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Daniel Burroughs

Open Public Sensors, Trend Monitoring and Data Fusion

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Alejandro Caceres

Conducting massive attacks with open source distributed computing

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Benjamin Caudill : UPDATED :

Offensive Forensics: CSI for the Bad Guy

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Daniel Chechik, Anat (Fox) Davidi : UPDATED :

Utilizing Popular Websites for Malicious Purposes Using RDI

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Ming Chow : UPDATED :

Abusing NoSQL Databases

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Robert Clark

Legal Aspects of Full Spectrum Computer Network (Active) Defense

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Joseph Paul Cohen

Blucat: Netcat For Bluetooth

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Daniel "unicornFurnace" Crowley, Jennifer "savagejen" Savage, David "videoman" Bryan

Home Invasion 2.0 - Attacking Network-Controlled Consumer Devices

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Ang Cui, Michael Costello : UPDATED :

Stepping P3wns: Adventures in full spectrum embedded exploitation (and defense!)

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Andy Davis : UPDATED :

Revealing Embedded Fingerprints: Deriving intelligence from USB stack interactions

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James Denaro : UPDATED :

How to Disclose or Sell an Exploit Without Getting in Trouble

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Doug DePerry, Tom Ritter : UPDATED :

I Can Hear You Now: Traffic Interception and Remote Mobile Phone Cloning with a Compromised CDMA Femtocell

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Christie Dudley : UPDATED :

Privacy In DSRC Connected Vehicles

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Piotr Duszynski : UPDATED :

Pwn'ing You(r) Cyber Offenders

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Lt. Gen. Robert Elder

From Nukes to Cyber – Alternative Approaches for Proactive Defense and Mission Assurance

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Melissa Elliott

Noise Floor: Exploring the world of unintentional radio emissions

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Justin Engler, Paul Vines

Electromechanical PIN Cracking with Robotic Reconfigurable Button Basher (and C3BO)

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Amir Etemadieh, CJ Heres, Mike Baker, Hans Nielsen

Google TV or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Exploit Secure Boot

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Jaime Filson (WiK), Rob Fuller (Mubix)

gitDigger: Creating useful wordlists from public GitHub repositories

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Flipper

10000 Yen into the Sea

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Pau Oliva Fora

Defeating SEAndroid

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Eric Fulton, Daniel Zolnikov

The Politics of Privacy and Technology: Fighting an Uphill Battle

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Brian Gorenc, Jasiel Spelman

Java Every-Days: Exploiting Software Running on 3 Billion Devices

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Joe Grand

JTAGulator: Assisted Discovery Of On-Chip Debug Interfaces

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Dan Griffin : UPDATED :

Protecting Data with Short-Lived Encryption Keys and Hardware Root of Trust

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Justin Hendricks

So You Think Your Domain Controller is Secure?

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Ricky Hill : UPDATED :

Phantom Network Surveillance UAV / Drone

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Ryan Holeman

The Bluetooth Device Database

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Alberto Garcia Illera, Javier Vazquez Vidal : UPDATED :

Dude, WTF in my car?

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Abraham Kang, Dinis Cruz : UPDATED :

Resting on Your Laurels will get you Pwned: Effectively Code Reviewing REST Applications to avoid getting powned

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Tom Keenan

Torturing Open Government Systems for Fun, Profit and Time Travel

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David Kennedy, Nick Hitchcock

The Dirty South – Getting Justified with Technology

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Karl Koscher, Eric Butler : UPDATED :

The Secret Life of SIM Cards

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Adam "Major Malfunction" Laurie, Zac Franken

Decapping Chips the Easy Hard Way

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David Lawrence, Eric Van Albert, Robert Johnson : UPDATED :

Key Decoding and Duplication Attacks for the Schlage Primus High-Security Lock

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Kenneth Lee

How to use CSP to stop XSS

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Drea London, Kyle O'Meara

This presentation will self-destruct in 45 minutes: A forensic deep dive into self-destructing message apps

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Sean Malone

HiveMind: Distributed File Storage Using JavaScript Botnets

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Todd Manning, Zach Lanier : UPDATED :

GoPro or GTFO: A Tale of Reversing an Embedded System

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Marion Marschalek

A Thorny Piece Of Malware (And Me): The Nastiness of SEH, VFTables & Multi-Threading

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Wesley McGrew

Pwn The Pwn Plug: Analyzing and Counter-Attacking Attacker-Implanted Devices

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Eric Milam : UPDATED :

Getting The Goods With smbexec

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Charlie Miller, Chris Valasek

Adventures in Automotive Networks and Control Units

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Nikhil Mittal

PowerPreter: Post Exploitation Like a Boss

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Tony Miu, Wai-leng Lee : UPDATED :

Kill 'em All — DDoS Protection Total Annihilation!

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Peiter Mudge Zatko

Unexpected Stories From a Hacker Who Made it Inside the Government

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Nicolas Oberli

Please Insert Inject More Coins

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Brendan O'Connor : UPDATED :

Stalking a City for Fun and Frivolity

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John Ortiz

Fast Forensics Using Simple Statistics and Cool Tools

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Fatih Ozavci : UPDATED :

VoIP Wars: Return of the SIP

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Franz Payer : UPDATED :

Exploiting Music Streaming with JavaScript

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Nicholas J. Percoco, Joshua Corman

The Cavalry Isn't Coming: Starting the Revolution to Fsck it All!

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Michael Perklin : UPDATED :

ACL Steganography - Permissions to Hide Your Porn

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Phorkus (Mark Carey), Evilrob (Rob Bathurst)

Doing Bad Things to 'Good' Security Appliances

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Gregory Pickett : UPDATED :

Let's screw with nmap

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Alexandre Pinto : UPDATED :

Defending Networks with Incomplete Information: A Machine Learning Approach

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Dr. Philip Polstra

We are Legion: Pentesting with an Army of Low-power Low-cost Devices

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pukingmonkey : UPDATED :

The Road Less Surreptitiously Traveled

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Jim Rennie, Marcia Hofmann : UPDATED :

Hacker Law School

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Chris John Riley : UPDATED :

Defense by numbers: Making problems for script kiddies and scanner monkeys

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Tom Ritter

De-Anonymizing Alt.Anonymous.Messages

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Eric Robi, Michael Perklin : UPDATED :

Forensic Fails - Shift + Delete won't help you here

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Teal Rogers, Alejandro Caceres

The dawn of Web 3.0: website mapping and vulnerability scanning in 3D, just like you saw in the movies

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Jaime Sanchez : UPDATED :

Building an Android IDS on Network Level

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Runa A. Sandvik

Safety of the Tor network: a look at network diversity, relay operators, and malicious relays

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Noah Schiffman, SkyDog

The Dark Arts of OSINT

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Michael Schrenk

How my Botnet Purchased Millions of Dollars in Cars and Defeated the Russian Hackers

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Jaeson Schultz

Examining the Bitsquatting Attack Surface

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Hunter Scott : UPDATED :

Hacking Wireless Networks of the Future: Security in Cognitive Radio Networks

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Jason Scott, Rachel Lovinger

Making Of The DEF CON Documentary

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Balint Seeber

All Your RFz Are Belong to Me - Hacking the Wireless World with Software Defined Radio

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Daniel Selifonov

A Password is Not Enough: Why disk encryption is broken and how we might fix it

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Neil Sikka : UPDATED :

EMET 4.0 PKI Mitigation

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Ryan W. Smith, Tim Strazzere

DragonLady: An Investigation of SMS Fraud Operations in Russia

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James Snodgrass (PuNk1nPo0p), Josh Hoover (wishbone) : UPDATED :

BYO-Disaster and Why Corporate Wireless Security Still Sucks

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soen : UPDATED :

Evolving Exploits Through Genetic Algorithms

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Christopher Soghoian

Backdoors, Government Hacking and The Next Crypto Wars

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Jason Staggs : UPDATED :

How to Hack Your Mini Cooper: Reverse Engineering Controller Area Network (CAN) Messages on Passenger Automobiles

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Alex Stamos

An Open Letter - The White Hat's Dilemma: Professional Ethics in the Age of Swartz, PRISM and Stuxnet

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Tom Steele, Dan Kottmann

Collaborative Penetration Testing With Lair

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Robert Stucke : UPDATED :

DNS May Be Hazardous to Your Health

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Chris Sumner, Randall Wald : UPDATED :

Predicting Susceptibility to Social Bots on Twitter

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Amr Thabet : UPDATED :

EDS: Exploitation Detection System

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Richard Thieme

The Government and UFOs: A Historical Analysis by Richard Thieme

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Josh 'm0nk' Thomas : UPDATED :

BoutiqueKit: Playing WarGames with expensive rootkits and malware

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Jacob Thompson

C.R.E.A.M. Cache Rules Evidently Ambiguous, Misunderstood

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Marc Weber Tobias, Tobias Bluzmanis

Insecurity - A Failure of Imagination

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Vaagn Toukharian, Tigran Gevorgyan

HTTP Time Bandit

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Mark Weatherford

The Growing Irrelevance of US Government Cybersecurity Intelligence Information

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Tillmann Werner

Prowling Peer-to-Peer Botnets After Dark

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Brandon Wiley

Defeating Internet Censorship with Dust, the Polymorphic Protocol Engine

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Josh Yavor : UPDATED :

BYOD PEAP Show

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Craig Young

Android WebLogin: Google's Skeleton Key

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Zoz

Hacking Driverless Vehicles

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