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.


Skyboxes

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Friday "Spiders are Fun" party Hacker pimps Hardware Hacking Village Wireless Village Lockpick Village
Saturday 303 (Skytalks) Ninja Networks i-hacked
Sunday HAM Radio Testing Available Available

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 - ???
The Unofficial Defcon 16 Toxic BBQ will be held for its fourth consecutive year. Details of the TBBQ's location can be found at http://www.toxicbbq.com. Sign on to the Defcon Forums and help plan this year's event.
21:00 - ??? theSummit fundraiser for EFF/THF at the Top of the Riv

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 Track 5 Contest Area Events Chillout 101/102
10:00 - 10:50 Welcome by DT & Making the DEFCON 16 Badge with Joe "Kingpin" Grand Weasel
Compliance: The Enterprise Vulnerablity Roadmap.
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
oCTF till 22:00

Coffee Wars till 12:00

Race to Zero till 18:00

Buzzword Survivor till 22:00 Sat

DEFCONBots practice during Contest Area hours

GH3 Signup till 12:00

Badge Hacking Contest till 14:00 Sunday

Mystery Challenge till 14:00 Sunday

   
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.
Panel: Hacking in the Name of Science. GH3 Free Play

The Phreaking Callenge till 17:00

Mystery Challenge Wildcard Slot Competition
Warballooning Demo in Outdoor Area till 14:00  
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
Scavenger Hunt till 17:00

GH3 Med. Heat 1

Beverage Cooling Contraption Contest
  Chillout Area, DJs

QueerCon Mixer @ 16:00
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
GH3 Med. Heat 2

Mystery Challenge begins at 1:05:70 till 14:00 Sunday
 
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 Bråding
Generic, Decentralized, Unstoppable Anonymity: The Phantom Protocol.
tool released
 
 
Jan Newger
Anti-RE Techniques in DRM Code
demonstration
GH3 Med. Heat 3 Mobile Hacker Spaces Demo in outdoor area till 16:00
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: Meet the Feds    
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
    Closed for Ball Setup
19:00 - 19:20     Nathan Evans
De-TOR-iorate Anonymity
     
19:30 - 19:50              
20:00 - 20:50       TCP/IP Drinking Game     Forum Meet @ 20:30 in Q&A 5 (room 103) till 22:30 Black Ball till 3:00 Sat.
21:00 - 21:50
 
Movie Night With DT:
Premiere of "Hackers Are People Too"
    Hacker Jeopardy    
22:00 - 22:50 Movie Night With DT:
Appleseed: Ex Machina
        Club QueerCon in Skybox 211 till ???
23:00 - 23:50            

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 Track 5 Contest Area Events Chillout 101/102
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.
Joe "kingpin" Grand & Zoz
BSODomizer.
demonstration
tool released
G.Mark Hardy
A Hacker Looks at 50.
oCTF till 22:00

Øwn the Box in oCTF Area during oCTF Hours

Skytalks in Skybox 206 till 18:00  
11:00 - 11:50 Matt Weir & Suhir Aggarwal
Password Cracking on a Budget.
demonstration
tool released

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
Scott Moulton
Forensics is ONLY for Private Investigators.
Cameron Hotchkies
Under the iHood.
Ferdinand Schober
Gaming- The Next Overlooked Security Hole.
GH3 Free Play

Gringo Warrior till 18:00
Warballooning Demo in Outdoor Area till 14:00  
12:00 - 12:50 FX
Developments in Cisco IOS Forensics.
demonstration


Matt "DCFLuX" Krick
Flux on:EAS (Emergency Alert System)
demonstration
John "Jur1st" Benson.
When Lawyers Attack! Dealing with the New Rules of Electronic Discovery.
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
Scavenger Hunt till 18:00

GH3 Hard Heat 1
  Chillout Area, DJs
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
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
DEFCONBots

GH3 Hard Heat 2

The Phreaking Callenge till 17:00

EEE PC Mod Workshop meetup till 15:00
 
14:00 - 14:50 Panel: All your Sploits (and Servers) are belong to us.
demonstration
Major Malfunction
Feed my SAT Monkey.
demonstration
tool released
Panel: Ask the EFF:
The Year in Digital Civil Liberties Panel
SensePost
Pushing the Camel through the eye of a needle.
demonstration
tool released
Lyn
Tuning Your Brain.
demonstration
tool released
GH3 Expert Heat Mobile Hacker Spaces Demo in outdoor area till 16:00
15:00 - 15:50 Zac Franken
Is that a unique credential in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Mati Aharoni
BackTrack Foo- From bug to 0day.
demonstration
exploit released
Phreakmonkey & mutantMandias
Urban Exploration- A Hacker's View.

GH3 Finals Med.

GH3 Finals Hard @ 15:30
 
16:00 - 16:20 Michael Brooks
CSRF Bouncing.
demonstration
exploit released
Mike Perry
365-Day:Active https cookie hijacking.
demonstration
tool released
exploit released
Panel: Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency 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.
GH3 Finals Expert  
16:30 - 16:50 MD Sohail Ahmad,
JVR Murthy & Amit Vartak

Autoimmunity Disorder in Wireless LANs.
demonstration
exploit released
17:00 - 17:20 Felix "FX" Lindner
Toying With Barcodes
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
Christopher Tarnovsky
Introducing Momentary Faults Within Secure Smartcards/ Microcontrollers.
demonstration
tool released
   
17:20 - 17:50 Fouad Kiamilev & Ryan Hoover

Demonstration of Hardware Trojans.
demonstration
18:00 - 18:50 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
Scott Moulton
Solid State Drives Destroy Forensic & Data Recovery Jobs: Animated!
demonstration
TBA Renderman
How can I pwn thee? Let me count the ways.
    Closed for Ball Setup
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     LeetSkills Talent Competition    
21:00 - 21:50     Hacker Jeopardy     White Ball till 3:00 Sunday
22:00 - 22:50 Movie Night With DT:
Three Days of the Condor
         
23:00 - ????            

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 Track 5 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
Stefan Frei, Thomas Duebendorfer, Gunter Ollman & Martin May
Exploiting A Hundred-Million Hosts Before Brunch
     
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
Valsmith & Colin Ames
MetaPost-Exploitation
demonstration
tool 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
Jonathan Brossard
Bypassing pre-boot authentication passwords
The Phreaking Callenge till 14:30    
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   Mobile Hacker Spaces Demo in outdoor area till 16:00  
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