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AI Village Events: https://info.defcon.org/tag/?id=40299
Aerospace Village Events: https://info.defcon.org/tag/?id=40280
Quantum Village Events: https://info.defcon.org/tag/?id=40291
There is another village at Defcon focused on the Metaverse. It’s the XR village – looking at augmented reality of virtual reality and the entire metaverse, and of course, the security of the metaverse.
XR Village Events: https://info.defcon.org/tag/?id=40311
NOTE: Previous events have been archived at the end of this post.
https://oodaloop.com/archive/2023/05/18/openai-hugging-face-and-defcon-31-august-2023-on-red-teaming-large-language-models-and-neural-language-models/#:~:text=Coming%20to%20DEF%20CON%2031%3A%20Hacking%20AI%20models
Participate in a Jeopardy-style CTFs competition that challenges you to break through the guardrails within 8 different LLMs. In your 50-minute session, execute prompt injections, find internal inconsistencies, and identify issues in information integrity, privacy, and societal harm. Compete for points and take home the prize, or just have fun coming up with novel attacks.
This exercise, first of its kind, will allow the best and brightest minds in the security industry to join diverse voices new and veteran to the AI scene in pursuit of making AI and machine learning safer.
https://oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03/for-the-first-time-defcon-2023-hack-a-sat-includes-a-real-time-cubesat-orbiting-space/
Hack-A-Sat 4 Briefing
Hack-A-Sat 4 Team
Hack-A-Sat 4 is quite simply the world’s first CTF in space. Now in its 4th year, the Hack-A-Sat competition series aims to enable security researchers of all levels to focus their skills and creativity on solving cyber security challenges on space systems and incentivize innovation in securing these systems. Stop by and witness the 5 finalist teams compete for $100K in prizes, learn more about the history of Hack-A-Sat, and the Moonlighter satellite hosting this year’s competition.
The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) is a big part of Hack-A-Sat 4. Further virtual resources for engaging the event virtuall can he found at:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-era-space-cybersecurity-begins-hack-a-sat/
Competition updates will be presented on the AV stage both Friday and Saturday morning at 11 am PT.
DefCon31, Quantum Village: The Quantum Debates
Bob Gourley will be participating in a panel at the Quantum Village this year on the topic of privacy: What will the age of quantum computing mean for personal privacy? A debate will take place between two standpoints – with one side saying the advent of quantum computing and quantum technologies will absolutely destroy any hope of personal privacy. While the other side will argue the age of quantum technologies and quantum security privacy will be enhanced for generations.
The History of XR From Fiction to Reality
Bob Gourley and Starr Brown
In this discussion XR village Executive Director Starr Brown interviews Bob Gourley, whose site OODAloop.com has been tracking XR topics since 2003. Bob has leveraged his experience as a cybersecurity professional and an enterprise CTO to produce research and reporting on XR that points to a future of incredible potential, if we can mitigate the new threats this emerging technology brings with it. Starr Brown is a security professional with a knack for using collaboration and innovation to meet both compliance and security needs and was early in identifying the unique security and risk mitigation needs of XR, making her the perfect person to extract insights from Bob in this fireside chat.
Hack-A-Sat 4 Awards Ceremony
Hack-A-Sat 4 Team
Hacking Satellites: Houston, We Have a Problem
Jacob Oakley
🦄 Destination –> #BlackHat! Still time to register for our VIP Vegas events, including our Founders Panel on 8/8, moderated by SCYTHE CEO @brysonbort! Join us as thought leaders share lessons learned from founding & running a cybersecurity startup!
— SCYTHE (@scythe_io) August 4, 2023
💥 https://t.co/3T9u0xCSHJ pic.twitter.com/PorxTFeJKp
Once again, Robert Stratton will be participating as judge in Black Hat Startup Spotlight:
Black Hat Startup Spotlight Competition
FINALISTS
Congratulations to our Top 4 Finalists:
Link to Event: https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/spotlight.html
“Redacted Telecom Talk” (All Cops Are Broadcasting: Breaking TETRA After Decades in the Shadows)
Wednesday, August 9th: Join Us at the Blackhat USA 2023 “Stuck in the 90’s” Party
https://oodaloop.com/archive/2023/08/02/wednesday-august-9th-join-us-at-the-blackhat-usa-2023-stuck-in-the-90s-party/
Since the Supreme Court Dobbs decision in 2022 that reversed Roe v. Wade, the women’s reproductive health community has been on the frontline of the future of digital self-sovereignty (through various health and wellness platforms designed around the menstrual cycle and/or reporductive health services). We have been tracking these issues for over a year – and will be providing some analysis on the topic in the months ahead. So were glad to see the following talk at DefCon31.
Hacking Reproductive Health
JJ Hastings
Thursday, August 10th: Join Us at the Blackhat USA 2023 Pool Party
(along with Hubble Technology, Nisos, Elevate Security and Delve Risk)
https://oodaloop.com/archive/2023/08/03/thusday-august-10th-join-us-at-the-blackhat-usa-2023-pool-party-along-with-hubble-technology-nisos-elevate-security-and-delve-risk/
About the Author
Daniel Pereira is research director at OODA. He is a foresight strategist, creative technologist, and an information communication technology (ICT) and digital media researcher with 20+ years of experience directing public/private partnerships and strategic innovation initiatives.
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