If you’re an avid docket watcher, you may have noticed that we filed a motion for summary judgement in Chris Hadnagy’s defamation suit against DEF CON. Summary judgement was granted with prejudice May 11, seemingly closing the case. To our surprise, Hadnagy filed an appeal in June. Then, less than 2 weeks later, he filed for a dismissal of that appeal. We accepted it. It’s time for an update!

The complete dismissal of his defamation case was yet another moment where Chris was pursued by an opportunity for personal growth. Again, Chris was too fast.

Instead, he filed an appeal. We may never know exactly why he thought this might be a winning strategy, but he did release a confusing LinkedIn video where he blamed his lawyers.

He was never going to win. After a dismissal like this you can’t introduce new facts or arguments, only argue that the law was misapplied.

The mistakes were made by Chris, not his lawyers. Every time, and by his own sworn testimony. There were many points in this saga where Chris could have chosen a different adventure, but did not. Now it is game over for him, and we are excited to return our full attention to moving on.

See you soon in Las Vegas!

#defcon #defcon33
#defconlegalupdate

Are you currently still planning to come to hacker summer camp aka @DianaInitiative @BSidesLV @blackgirlshack @defcon ?

If you hate noise, grab some Loop (or other brand) earplugs now and make sure they work and are comfy.

Setting up laptops now for our Girls Who Hack and Spawn-Camp day camps this weekend 😎💻👀

After everything with DEFCON? there is no way

More Android vulnerabilities! Towards Interpretable Android Malware Detection with Transformer-Based Models with Hantang Zangh at #BSidesUME #Bsides

So... Microsoft canned Wordpad, yet stuffed Bing, AI, and formatting into Notepad, and for an encore simultaneously reinvented "Edit" - which, like Visual Studio Code, can't do what EDIT.COM could: print.

Is it time we stop "improving" things worse yet?

http://2600.nyc @NYC2600@infosec.exchange

The Hugh (https://thehughnyc.com​)
157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.)
🅔🅜 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.
🚍 M101, M102, or M103

@NYC2600 presents "June Sixth", tomorrow at 5PM.

https://2600.nyc @NYC2600@mastodon.social

The Hugh, https://thehughnyc.com​
157 East 53rd St. (bet. Lexington and Third Avs.)
🅔🅜 Lexington Av./53 St.; ➏ 51st St.; 🚍 M101, M102, or M103​

🇬🇧✨ Could your browser’s cache be used to smuggle malware?
Join Aurélien Chalot at hashtag#leHACK 2025 to uncover how cache smuggling bypasses traditional defenses for silent payload delivery and network recon. Learn how to protect your organization!
🗓️ 27 June
🕐 2:00pm
🔗 https://lehack.org/2025/tracks/conferences
🎟️ Late bird : https://billetweb.fr/lehack-2025-the-singularity
Don’t miss it!
#redteam #cybersecurity #leHACK

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🇫🇷✨ Et si le cache de votre navigateur permettait de diffuser des malwares ?
Aurélien Chalot présente le cache smuggling lors du hashtag#leHACK 2025 : techniques d’attaque, reconnaissance furtive et conseils pour s’en prémunir !
🗓️ 27 Juin
🕐 14h00
🔗 https://lehack.org/2025/tracks/conferences
🎟️ Dernières places : https://billetweb.fr/lehack-2025-the-singularity
À ne pas manquer !
#redteam #cybersécurité #leHACK

Hello World!

We are proud to announce that DEF CON NextGen will be a part of Defcon 33 🌟

If you haven't heard about us before, we are the official DEF CON youth track 🦝

There are a ton of awesome activities planned this year including: classes, collaborations with villages, workshops, CTFs, and an amazing badge 👩‍💻

If you haven't brought your kid to DEF CON before, then now is the perfect time to do so! More information to come so follow our socials for more info 💚

dcnextgen.org

#DEFCON33
#DEFCON
#defcon

I just donated $1,000 to send 1
WISP (Women in Security and Privacy) scholar to DEF CON, etc!
The 1st person to match me is
@0xtib3rius -- thank you so much!!
Who is going to match my donation!
The goal is 45 scholars total and we have 2 so far!
You can write this off on your taxes ◡̈
https://wisporg.app.neoncrm.com/forms/hackersummercamp

We have rebuilt our primary #bittorrent server and are reloading seeds now. In the next few days all the rainbow tables, wordlists, and cons should be available again!
https://infocon.org/

We couldn't be more excited to reveal the logo for this year's BSides Boulder conference! It was designed by amazing Lorena Spelucin. Swag orders are in and we can't wait to share images of those once we receive them.

The 2025 speaker schedule is officially up as well! Please keep in mind that session may shift around around as we get closer to the event.
Schedule: https://bsidesboulder.org/schedule/

We still have tickets left but we sold out last year, don't miss out on this year's event!
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsides-boulder-2025-registration-1290129274389

🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨
Say hello to Patrick Laverty, joining us at #BSides312 with a talk called Can a Hacker Murder Your City you won’t want to miss! 🎤🔥
🎟️ More information and grab your ticket now at bsides312.org — this session is going to be epic!
#BSides #InfoSec

🚨 FORRT Hackathon!
Join us on for a collaborative FORRT hackathon where we’ll be working together on writing up chapters for our upcoming community-maintained e-book on feedback strategies in academic research! 📚✍️

📅 Thursday, 29 May
🕚 11:00–13:00 BST | 12:00–14:00 CEST | 10:00–12:00 UTC
🔗 Join on MS Teams:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzBmMzUzZGEtZWE1NC00YWU2LWEzOTMtMjkxMzc2MzUyYzdk%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%223516f40a-5ae9-4956-bbab-395162e589ce%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22b9dd3dcf-4b44-42bd-8fd8-ad33706b9854%22%7d

💌 Questions? r.a.sobolak@greenwich.ac.uk

Come write with us! 🧵✍️

#OpenScience

Want to see something cursed?

It's the Linux kernel 4.19 building *natively* under Windows XP under Services for UNIX. The amount of effort to get this far was immense ...

EDIT: Follow the adventure at https://YouTube.com/c/NCommander

Throughout May, help strengthen Tor's independence from profit-driven influence. 💜
We're aiming to raise $75,000 to keep building the tools that protect your privacy and help millions access the open internet. 😤✊

Every gift made today will be matched 1:1 up to $15,000. That means if you donate $25 now, the Friends of Tor will match your gift by also donating $25, and your impact doubles to $50.

#PrivacyIsPossible

https://torproject.org/donate/donate-md-sc2025

come see me at Q Con in West Hollywood on Saturday May 3!

i’ll be signing at the Prism booth from 2-3pm, and on the queer comics and resistance panel from 3-3:45pm. it’s free!

AND THEN I WILL VANISH LIKE A NINJA (because comics and short films stubbornly don’t make themselves) 🩷

Coworker: ...and the IP address are compared with a string match.
Me: grinning manically
Coworker: Why are you looking at me like that?
Me: Open up a terminal and type ping 4.2.514 and hit enter.
Coworker: ...what's the fourth number?
Me: grin widens Just hit enter.
Coworker: WTF!?

With our team at Stratosphere Laboratory AIC FEE CTU, we are organising this year's Honeynet Project Workshop 2025 in Prague!

It will be a unique space to share your passion for deception technologies, honeypots, and cybersecurity with industry leaders and fellow researchers!

🔔 We are looking for sponsors who want to support deception research!
🔔 Early birds are still open until April 29th! Grab your tickets!
🔔 Last days to submit your training and talks proposals!
🔔 Students can apply for a Cédric Blancher Memorial Scholarship!

This is the first time the conference is coming to Prague, with previous editions hosted in Copenhagen (2024), Innsbruck (2019), Taipei (2018), Canberra (2017), San Antonio (2016), Stavanger (2015), Warsaw (2014), Dubai (2013), San Francisco (2012), Paris (2011), Mexico City (2010) and Kuala Lumpur (2009).

What a unique opportunity!

🔗 https://prague2025.honeynet.org/

Boost and help us spread the word! 👾

#honeynet #cybersecurity #deception #honeypots #infosec #prague #praguetoday #SecurityConference #ThreatIntel #MalwareAnalysis #PragueEvents

I was given this #CISA rubix cube by then director Easterly and it was all orderly and nice. Unfortunately this is the approximate current situation: