https://josephscottcampbell.com/tags/def-con/ Recent content in DEF CON on Scott Campbell's Robotics Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sun, 13 Aug 2023 10:04:43 -0700 https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/def-con-blog-4/ Sun, 13 Aug 2023 10:04:43 -0700 https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/def-con-blog-4/ Day 4 - Sunday Sunday did not have too much going on becausw all of the villages were shutting down. We tried to watch a talk about memory injection in linux, but we got kicked out because we could not find seats. Zack Noah and I went to the voting machine village, we learned how to hack the voting machines used in the 2008 and 2012 election. You simply pull the screen down, unplug the card reader, hit a reboot button, wait for the machine to reboot, then finally press change settings. https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/def-con-blog-3/ Sat, 12 Aug 2023 10:04:43 -0700 https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/def-con-blog-3/ Day 3 - Saturday I was not able to get myself up as early as I did on the previous days, so I only got to the conference at about 11am. We went around the convention center and talked to people, but everything was very busy and we did not want to wait in lines. Second Rave Lights Hacking Attempt We figured out some more about how the rave lights are supposed to be hacked. https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/def-con-blog-2/ Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:04:43 -0700 https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/def-con-blog-2/ Day 2 - Friday On Thursday I got up at 6am so I could see the conference early. There was not much open but it was still very fun to walk around and talk to people. Once the lockpicking village opened I went there, it was terrifyingly easy to pick padlocks. Within an hour of first picking up a pick set I was able to open master locks in a few minutes. https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/def-con-blog-1/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:04:43 -0700 https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/def-con-blog-1/ Day 1 - Thursday On Thursday we got up at 5:45 so that we could practice our talk one last time. The Talk We went to the greenroom and got our speaker badges. The speaker ops team was very surprised when the realized how young we were. When we went on stage we were shocked by how full the room was. Almost all the seats were full, with even more people standing in the back. https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/def-con-blog-0/ Wed, 09 Aug 2023 10:04:43 -0700 https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/def-con-blog-0/ Day 0 - Wednesday The convention officially starts on Thursday but there are many DEF CON attendees in the hotels before that. It was a unique and fun experience talking to so many people in the cybersecurity industry. We interviewed with Andy Greenberg over the phone about our security research for the Wired article about it. We went to the convention center to see where our talk was so we could quickly get there in the morning. https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/securing-for-def-con/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 14:20:08 -0400 https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/securing-for-def-con/ Intro - What is DEFCON DEFCON is one of the largest cybersecurity conventions in the world. Every year it takes place in Vegas and brings people from all over. Having all of those hackers in one place makes for a fun environment with lots of learning opportunities, but it also makes an environment where your threat model has to be a little bit more extreme. My Threat Model The bottom line is I am not a particularly interesting person to hack. https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/def-con-1/ Wed, 05 Jul 2023 01:06:25 -0400 https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/def-con-1/ What We Will Be Talking About Some other MVTHS students, Matthew Harris, Zach Bertocci, Noah Gibson, and I hacked the MBTA Charlie Card System and responsibilty disclosed it. I cannot give too much information on it yet, but it will all be available during DEF CON, and I will release more after it. I can’t spoil the surprise. All the information that I am allowed to release about the talk is in this forum post.