Schedule

The schedule for DEFCON 16 will be updated as it develops, stay tuned for updates.


This schedule is tentative and may change at any time. Contest/Event Organizers: Email neil[at]defcon[dot]org with updates.


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Thursday Night
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Pre-Con: Thursday, August 7

12:00 - 22:00
Registration - $120 USD CASH ONLY - Avoid the lines and get your badge early.
Official DEFCON Store in the same area as the Registration desk until 22:00 - Get your official DEFCON swag at the DEFCON Store
Vendor Area Setup: 11:00 - 18:00
18:00 - ???
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Day One: Friday, August 8

08:00 - 22:00 Registration - $120 USD CASH ONLY - Avoid the lines and get your badge early.
Official DEFCON Store in the same area as the Registration desk until 22:00 - Get your official DEFCON swag at the DEFCON Store.
Vendor Area Hours: 10:00 - 19:00
  Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 BREAKOUT Room Contest Area Events Room
10:00 - 10:50 Welcome by DT & Making the DEFCON 16 Badge with Joe "Kingpin" Grand Chema Alonso & Jose Parada
Time-Based Blind SQL Injections Using Heavy Queries: A Practical Approach to MS SQL Server, MS Acess, Oracle, MySQL Databases and Marathon Tool.
demonstration
tool released
Brenno J.S.A de Winter
Hacking Data Retention: Small Sister your Digital Privacy Self Defense.
demonstration
tool released
Ben Feinstein
The Wide World of WAFs.
demonstration
     
11:00 - 11:20 Schuyler Towne
How to make friends & influence Lock Manufacturers.
demonstration
tool released
exploit released
Michael Brooks
Deciphering Captcha
demonstration
Ian Angell
Digital Security: A Risky Business
Joe Cicero
Hacking E.S.P.
Christopher Tarnovsky
Introducing Momentary Faults Within Secure Smartcards/ Microcontrollers.
demonstration
tool released
     
11:30- 11:50 Kolisar
Whitespace: A Different Approach to JavaScript Obfuscation.
demonstration
tool released


Clinton Wong
Web Privacy & Flash Local Shared Objects.
12:00 - 12:50 Mike Spindel
Captchas: Are they really Hopeless? (Yes!)
demonstration
Mark Bristow
ModScan: A SCADA MODBUS Network Scanner
demonstration
tool released
Roger Dingledine
Security and anonymity vulnerabilities in Tor: past, present, and future
     
13:00 - 13:20 Marc Weber Tobias
Open in 30 Seconds: Cracking One of the Most Secure Locks in America.

demonstration
tool released
exploit released

Tom "Strace" Stracener & Robert "RSnake" Hansen
Xploiting Google Gadgets: Gmalware & Beyond
tool released
Robert Ricks
New Tool for SQL Injection with DNS Exfiltration.
demonstration
tool released
Jim O'Leary 
Every Breath you Take.
demonstration
tool released

Greg Conti
Could Googling Take Down a President, Prime Minister, or an Average Citizen?
demonstration
     
13:30 - 13:50 Morgan Marquis-Boire
Fear, Uncertainty and the Digital Armageddon.
14:00 - 14:50 Nathan Hamiel & Shawn Moyer
Satan is on my friends list: Attacking Social Networks.
demonstration
Kurt Grutzmacher
Nail the Coffin Shut,NTLM is Dead.
demonstration
tool released
Magnus BrĂ¥ding
Generic, Decentralized, Unstoppable Anonymity: The Phantom Protocol.
tool released
 
 
Jan Newger
Anti-RE Techniques in DRM Code
demonstration
     
15:00 - 15:50 Eric Schmiedl
Advanced Physical Attacks: Going Beyond Social Engineering and Dumpster Diving Or, Techniques of Industrial Espionage
Wendel Guglielmetti Henrique
Playing with Web Application Firewalls.
demonstration
Kevin Figueroa, Marco Figueroa, & Anthony L. Williams
VLANs Layer 2 Attacks: Their Relevance and their Kryptonite.
demonstration
Alex Stamos, David Thiel & Justine Osborne
Living in the RIA.
demonstration
     
16:00 - 16:50 David Maynor & Robert Graham
Bringing Sexy Back: Breaking in with Style.
demonstration
tool released
exploit released
Fyodor
NMAP-Scanning the Internet.
demonstration
tool released
James Shewmaker
StegoFS
demonstration
tool released
Blake Self & Durandal
Free Anonymous Internet Using Modified Cable Modems.
demonstration
Travis Goodspeed
Journey to the center of the HP28.
     
17:00 - 17:50 Matt Yoder
Death Envelope: Medieval Solution to a 21st Century Problem.
Ben Feinstein
Snort Plug-in Development: Teaching an Old Pig New Tricks. demonstration
tool released
D.J. Capelis
Building a Real Session Layer.
demonstration
tool released
Vic Vandal
Keeping Secret Secrets Secret & Sharing Secret Secrets Secretly.
demonstration
Panel: Hacking in the Name of Science.      
18:00 - 18:50 Fabian "Fabs" Yamaguchi & FX
New Ideas for Old Practices- Port Scanning Improved.
demonstration
tool released
Guy Martin
Sniffing Cable Modems.
demonstration
tool released
John Fitzpatrick
Virtually Hacking.
demonstration
tool released
Eric Smith & Dr. Shana Dardan.
Medical Identity Theft.
demonstration
     
19:00 - 19:20
 
Movie Night With DT:
Premiere of "Hackers Are People Too"
    Nathan Evans
De-TOR-iorate Anonymity
       
19:30 - 19:50  
20:00 - 20:50              
21:00 - 21:50 Movie Night With DT:
Appleseed: Ex Machina
             
22:00 - ?????              

Day Two: Saturday, August 9

08:00 - 22:00 Registration - $120 USD CASH ONLY - Avoid the lines and get your badge early.
Official DEFCON Store in the Vendor Area at the J!nx Hackwear Booth
Vendor Area Hours: 10:00 - 19:00
  Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 BREAKOUT Room Contest Area Events Room
10:00 - 10:50 David Weston & Tiller Beauchamp
RE:Trace: The Reverse Engineer's Unexpected Swiss Army Knife.
demonstration
tool released
Nelson Murilo & Luiz "effffn" Eduardo
Beholder: New WiFi Monitor Tool.
demonstration
tool released
Don Blumenthal
Working With Law Enforcement.
Valsmith & Colin Ames
MetaPost-Exploitation
demonstration
tool released
G.Mark Hardy
A Hacker Looks at 50.
     
11:00 - 11:50 Jonathan Brossard
Bypassing pre-boot authentication passwords
Thomas d'Otreppe de Bouvette "Mister X" & Rick Farina "Zero_Chaos"
Shifting the Focus of WiFi Security: Beyond Cracking your neighbor's WEP key.
demonstration
tool released
exploit released
John "Jur1st" Benson.
When Lawyers Attack! Dealing with the New Rules of Electronic Discovery.
Cameron Hotchkies
Under the iHood.
Ferdinand Schober
Gaming- The Next Overlooked Security Hole.
     
12:00 - 12:50 FX
Developments in Cisco IOS Forensics.
demonstration


Matt "DCFLuX" Krick
Flux on:EAS (Emergency Alert System)
demonstration
Jay Beale
Owning the Users with Agent in the Middle.
demonstration
tool released
exploit released

"Ne0nRa1n" & Joe "Kingpin" Grand
Brain Games: Make your own Biofeedback Video Game.
demonstration
tool released
     
13:00 - 13:50 Adam Bregenzer
Buying Time- What is your Data Worth? (A Generalized Solution to Distributed Brute Force Attacks.)
demonstration
tool released
Alexander Lash
Taking Back your Cellphone.
demonstration
Panel: Ask the EFF:
The Year in Digital Civil Liberties Panel
Luciano Bello & Maximiliano Bertacchini
Predictable RNG in the Vulnerable Debian OpenSSL Package, the What and the How.
demonstration
Ian Clarke

Hacking Desire.
demonstration
tool released
     
14:00 - 14:50 Panel: All your Sploits (and Servers) are belong to us.
demonstration
Major Malfunction
Feed my SAT Monkey.
demonstration
tool released
SensePost
Pushing the Camel through the eye of a needle.
demonstration
tool released
Lyn
Tuning Your Brain.
demonstration
tool released
     
15:00 - 15:50 Joe "kingpin" Grand & Zoz
BSODomizer.
demonstration
tool released
Scott Moulton
Forensics is ONLY for Private Investigators.
Mati Aharoni
BackTrack Foo- From bug to 0day.
demonstration
exploit released
Phreakmonkey & mutantMandias
Urban Exploration- A Hacker's View.

     
16:00 - 16:20 Michael Brooks
CSRF Bouncing.
demonstration
exploit released
Mike Perry
365-Day:Active https cookie hijacking.
demonstration
tool released
exploit released
Paul F. Renda
The True Story of the Radioactive Boyscout: The first Nuclear Hacker & how his work relates to Homeland Security's model of the dirty bomb.
demonstration
atlas
VulnCatcher: Fun with Vtrace & Programmatic Debugging.
demonstration
tool released
Lee Kushner & Mike Murray
Career Mythbusters: Separating Fact from Fiction in your Information Security Career.
     
16:30 - 16:50 MD Sohail Ahmad,
JVR Murthy & Amit Vartak

Autoimmunity Disorder in Wireless LANs.
demonstration
exploit released
17:00 - 17:20 Gadi Evron
Hacking the Bionic Man.
NYCMIKE
The World of Pager Sniffing/ Interception: More Activity than one may suspect.
Don Blumenthal
What to do when your Data winds up where it shouldn't.
David Byrne
Grendel-Scan: A New Web Application Scanning Tool.
demonstration
tool released
Panel: Meet the Feds.      
17:20 - 17:50 Fouad Kiamilev & Ryan Hoover

Demonstration of Hardware Trojans.
demonstration
18:00 - 18:50 Matt Weir & Suhir Aggarwal
Password Cracking on a Budget.
demonstration
tool released

Scott Moulton
Solid State Drives Destroy Forensic & Data Recovery Jobs: Animated!
demonstration
Weasel
Compliance: The Enterprise Vulnerablity Roadmap.
Renderman
How can I pwn thee? Let me count the ways.
     
19:00 - 19:50 Movie Night With DT:
25th Anniversary Showing of Wargames Followed by a fireside chat with David Scott Lewis, IT & green tech entrepreneur, model for David Lightman
           
20:00 - 20:50              
21:00 - 21:50 Movie Night With DT:
Three Days of the Condor
           
22:00 - ?????            

Day Three: Sunday, August 10

08:00 - 12:00 Registration - $120 USD CASH ONLY - Avoid the lines and get your badge early.
Official DEFCON Store in the Vendor Area at the J!nx Hackwear Booth
Vendor Area Hours: 10:00 - 15:00
  Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 Breakout Room Contest Area Events Room
10:00 - 10:20 Bruce Potter
Malware Detection through Network Flow Analysis.
demonstration
tool released
Brian K. Edwards
Markets for Malware: A Structural Economic Approach
Tony Howlett
The death of Cash: The Loss of anonymity & other danger of the cash free society.
Christer Oberg, Claes Nyberg, & James Tusini
Hacking Open VMS.
demonstration
exploit released
Stephan Frei, Thomas Duebendorfer & Gunter Ollman
"Insecurity Iceberg": New Paper by ETH Zurich, Google Inc, & IBM Internet Security Systems.
     
10:30 -10:50 Ryan Trost
Evade IDS/IPS Systems using Geospatial Threat Detection.
demonstration
Peter Berghammer
The Emergence (and use) of Open Source Warfare.
JonM
Ham for Hackers-Take back the Airwaves.
demonstration
11:00 - 11:50 Rick Hill
War Ballooning-Kismet Wireless "Eye in the Sky"
demonstration
Dan Kaminsky
TBA
Sandy Clark "Mouse"
Climbing Everest: An Insider's Look at one state's Voting Systems.
N.N.P.
VoIPER:Smashing the VoIP Stack while you sleep.
demonstration
tool released
exploit released
Nick Harbour
Advanced Software Armoring and Polymorphic Kung Fu
demonstration
tool released
     
12:00 - 12:20 Simon Howard
Race-2-Zero Unpacked.
demonstration
Teo Sze Siong & Hirosh Joseph
Let's Sink the Phishermen's Boat!
demonstration
Doug Farre
Identification Card Security: Past, Present, Future.
demonstration
Jay Beale
They're Hacking Our Clients! Introducing Free Client-side Intrustion Prevention.
demonstration
tool released
exploit released
       
12:30 - 12:50 Renderman
10 Things that are Pissing me off.
 
13:00 - 13:50 Thomas Wilhelm
Mobile Hacker Space.
demonstration
Anthony Martinez & Thomas Bowen
Toasterkit, a Modular NetBSD Rootkit.
demonstration
tool released
Zack Anderson, RJ Ryan & Alessandro Chiesa
The Anatomy of a Subway Hack: Breaking Crypto RFID's & Magstripes of Ticketing Systems.
demonstration
tool released
Paul Craig
Compromising Windows Based Internet Kiosks.
demonstration
tool released
     
14:00 - 14:50 Panel: Internet Wars Michael Ligh & Greg Sinclair
Malware RCE: Debuggers and Decryptor Development.
demonstration
tool released
Mike Renlund
The Big Picture: Digital Cinema Technology & Security.
Panel: Black vs. White: The complete life cycle of a real world breach.
demonstration
tool released
DAVIX Visualization Workshop      
15:00 - 15:50 Jason Scott
Making a Text Adventure Documentary.
demonstration
tool released
Igor Muttik
Good Viruses. Evaluating the Risks.
demonstration
Taylor Banks & Carric.
Pen-Testing is Dead, Long live the Pen Test.
     
16:00 - 16:50 Chris Eagle & Tim Vidas
Next Generation Collaborative Reversing with IdaPro &CollabReate.
demonstration
tool released
Tottenkoph, Rev & Philosopher
Hijacking the Outdoor Digital Billboard Network.
exploit released
lclee_vx
Comparison of File Infection on Windows & Linux.
demonstration
       
17:00 - 17:50 Awards Ceremonies hosted by Dark Tangent