The Defcon hacker conference always courts controversy – even though the visitors to said event fit more in the original definition of the word than the media-hijacked cracker synonym – and this year ...

Nine-year-old Anna focused intently as she screwed a circuit board into place in a first-ever "DefCon Kids village" created to tutor children in the ways of hacking. Her 10-year-old brother, Jake, was ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Fewer things seem out of place at the rough-hewn DefCon hacker convention than a swarm of kids. For 18 years, hackers -and the computer security experts who track them- have gathered ...

National Security Agency Director General Keith B. Alexander addressed the attendees of the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas on Friday and asked for their help to secure cyberspace. “This is the ...

A hacking session at the DEFCON 26 event Thursday in Las Vegas resulted in electronic voting machines being compromised, with children able to amend voter details in just a few minutes –but the ...

How secure is your wireless router? The Def Con 22 hacker conference aims to find out exactly how resilient off the shelf products are next month during a six-day hackathon. Seasoned hackers and ...

Veteran US hackers are on their way to China on a quest to foster alliances with peers and dispel notions that all of their kindred spirits there are cyber spies. The budding effort was unveiled at an ...

With but $1,500 worth of equipment and some ingenuity, security researcher Chris Paget can create his own cell phone tower. Here's the catch, however: The tower itself isn't real. It's a fake ...

Revelations about US surveillance have led to protests around the world Federal agents have been asked to stay away from one of the world's biggest hacker gatherings. Revelations about the scale of US ...

A novel class of security problems have been found lurking in many mobile games by a ten-year old hacker. Going by the handle CyFi, the hacker presented her findings at the DefCon hacker conference ...

The hacker conference now has a series of sessions aimed at a new generation of tinkerers A novel class of security problems have been found lurking in many mobile games by a ten-year old hacker.