DEFCON 4 is, obviously, one step above default peacetime. The code name for DEFCON 4 is "Double Take" — the kind of situation that makes you say "Wait a minute" and look at something again more ...

Thousands of hackers probed AI chatbots for misinformation, bias and security flaws at the annual Defcon hacking convention in Las Vegas to see how easy is it to make the AI go off the rails.

Defcon is one of the world's premier hacking conferences, yet few women attend. Complaints about sexist behavior offer a window into the culture its organizers downplay as harmless fun.

While standing in line, one of Defcon's volunteer staff, affectionately called Goons, yelled out, "is anyone here easily offended or under 18?" He told them to turn around now if they were.

DEFCON 4 is, obviously, one step above default peacetime. The code name for DEFCON 4 is "Double Take" -- the kind of situation that makes you say "Wait a minute" and look at something again more ...

In the past, I've covered DEFCON on LinuxJournal.com under my hacker pseudonym Darth Elmo. (No, I'm no more scary as a hacker than my handle implies, although I'm working on it.) But this time, I ...

The term ‘Defcon’ -”Defence readiness condition”- was coined by US Defence officials in 1962, and ranges from levels one to five. Defcon Five is the “lowest state of readiness” while ...

The task of turning out the DEFCON badge "is a full-time effort," Grand said. "That's why they call it 'badge life'." Grand told Moss that he wanted to do something simple "that can appeal to as ...

One thing that sort of irks me is when people mistake DEFCON 5 as worse and crazier and insane and severe than DEFCON 1. I know more always sounds better but it’s not.

One of the DefCon organizers asked the roughly 1,000 people in the room how many were attending DefCon for the first time this year. And wouldn’t you know it, nearly every hand in the place went up.