DEFCON - The largest Hacking Convention in the World

DEF CON (also written as DEFCON or Defcon) is one of the world's largest yearly cyberpunk meetings, held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada. The initial DEF CON took place in June 1993.
Several of the participants at DEF CON include computer system safety professionals, journalists, attorneys, federal public servant, protection analysts, and cyberpunks with a general interest in software, computer system design, phone phreaking, hardware alteration, and anything else that could be "cracked." The occasion consists of several tracks of speakers regarding computer- and cracking-related topics, as well as gatherings and contests in everything from developing the longest Wi-Fi link and fracturing computer systems to that could most successfully cool a draft beer in the Nevada warmth. Other competitions include lockpicking, robotics-related competitions (discontinued), fine art, slogan, coffee battles (not presently running), scavenger hunt and Capture the Flag. Catch the Flag (CTF) is perhaps the very best known of these competitions. It is a hacking competitors where teams of crackers attempt to assault and protect computer systems and networks utilizing certain software and network frameworks. CTF has actually been emulated at various other splitting meetings as well as in army and scholastic contexts.
Seminar founder Jeff Moss competes that the quality of submitted talks has actually decreased since DEF CON's inception due to the fact that protection researchers have actually found business and government firms to spend for the research, leaving the scientists less prepared to reveal their zero-day susceptability research study "for totally free" at DEF CON.  Additionally, the conference has gone from one track to five and accepting speaker propositions for 5 times the study decreases the thickness of "elite" speeches.