The backbone of the Defcon network consists of a Cisco fiber switch (second box from top). The firewall (bottom server) is a quad-core Xeon running OpenBSD and employing pf to filter and shape traffic ...
DefCon is the world’s longest running and largest underground hacking conference. It’s one of those events that with each passing year gets more focus in the news. The things that come out of there ...
DEFCON is huge. Last year attendance tipped at about 16k, and we’d wager this year will be even bigger. [Brian] and I will both be among those attending (more on that below) but I wanted to take this ...