The first big surprise Vegas had in store for everyone is that the DEF CON badge is an electronic badge this year. It’s traditionally been the DC practice to alternate years between electronic and non ...

At previous Def Cons I wrote about the unofficial badges and the culture surrounding those pieces of technology. This year I was determined to move past my infatuation with blinking lights and ...

It's one of the best things about the Defcon hacking conference, and one of its most closely guarded secrets: the programmable badge that's handed out to show attendees every year. It’s one of the ...

If you are attending the upcoming DEF CON conference you may be interested in a new hackable electronic badge created by electronics hacker John Adams. The DEF CON badge comes equipped with RGB LEDs, ...

LAS VEGAS—There are many things that make the DEFCON conference stand above all other hacking conferences. It’s the largest, of course, with over 30,000 attendees, sprawling over four hotels in Las ...

Joe Grand, once known as Kingpin with the legendary hacking group L0pht, has co-hosted the Discovery Channel's Prototype This and runs Grand Idea Studio. But Grand, an electrical engineer, was the ...

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Annual hacker outing Defcon has become so popular, attendees have been – predictably – scamming their way in for years by creating fake badges. But not this year, as organizers created a souped-up, ...