A ‘suspicious package’ was reported at the hacking conference Def Con at Caesars Forum Saturday night, according to a post from conference. The conference was evacuated around 10 p.m., and the ...

While cyberattacks are expected against every industry, the network of the roughly 50,000 independent water and wastewater facilities spread across the U.S. is particularly vulnerable. LAS VEGAS — DEF ...

LAS VEGAS — This year’s Black Hat Briefings and Def Con hacker conferences appeared more professional than in previous years, with an increased number of security professionals and government ...

The six biggest companies in AI had a peculiar challenge for hackers last week: make their chatbots say the most terrible things. Hackers lined up outside the Caesars Forum conference center just off ...

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LAS VEGAS — At the largest hacker conference in the world this week, some turned out for a rare overtly partisan event: a fundraiser for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

In a Jeopardy-style game at the annual Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas, hackers tried to get chatbots from OpenAI, Google and Meta to... What happens when thousands of hackers try to break AI ...

Def Con, the world’s largest hacker conference, has long been a place for cybersecurity ninjas to put their skills to the test, from breaking into cars to discovering smart home vulnerabilities, or ...