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Phish Stories is a contest that combines the art of creative writing with the strategic challenge of social engineering, inviting participants to craft phishing emails that are both convincing and hilariously entertaining.
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Contestants will take the stage and choose a random number corresponding to a specific slide deck. They will then improvise a minimum 5 minute / maximum 10 minute lightning talk, becoming instant subject matter experts on whatever topic/stream of consciousness appears on the screen.
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Travel the seven seas to the seven wonders across time to test your skills across both old and new worlds. Every journey's end yields its own reward, but there is only one who can claim to be the first to the summit. Bring your entire tech arsenal or just a phone. Start at the broken compass and push forward into the known to seek the unknown. Wonders, plunder, and glory to those who test the waters and themselves.
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Show us your skills by building a tin foil hat to shield your subversive thoughts, then test it out for effectiveness.
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The TeleChallenge is a fast-paced, fully immersive, and epic battle of wits and skill. The highest level of commitment is required, and this is one of the hardest contests in the world to win, but you don't need any special technical skills to play: just a touch-tone phone.
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June 29, 2024
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Embark on a thrilling espionage adventure with spyVspy! This contest imagines a world of spy games where contestants employ basic hacking, cryptography, and rogue skills to solve puzzles and uncover hidden NFC tags strategically scattered throughout DEF CON.
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The Social Engineering Community’s Youth Challenge is designed to guide children under the age of 17 through a series of hands-on challenges across various DEF CON villages (but primarily within the Social Engineering Community.)
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This is going to be an interactive live game that is driven by a near future storyline in which deepfakes and forgeries are so difficult to detect that bad actors and foreign governments are fully engaged in a war over people's minds.
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June 28, 2024
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Red Alert ICS CTF is a competition for Hackers by Hackers, organized by the RedAlert Lab of NSHC Security. The event exclusively focuses on having the participants clear a series of challenges and break through several layers of security in our OT environment and eventually take over complete control of the ICS components.
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June 28, 2024
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Pit your wits against the Atom, and come and see what devilish challenges from our Quantum Quizmasters await. Come and show your quantum prowess, and mastery of superposition and entanglement - design algorithms to break cryptography, hack our simulated quantum communications, and score points in our IRL activities.
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June 28, 2024
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In this game capture the flag you will be presented with real configurations of real wireless and radio technologies to attack.
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June 28, 2024
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The inaugural Pinball High Score contest at DEF CON has a daily High Score contests, daily challenges and open qualifying for a main tournament. The daily contests will allow any attendee to play pinball games and attempt to record a qualifying high score on each of the unique games.
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August 25, 2024
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The CTF will be hosted on live VoIP lines routed through a modified asterisk PBX. This will allow participants to dial in to the CTF from a real world telephone routable phone number allowing them to hunt the PBX for flags.
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June 15, 2024
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Octopus Game is your chance to connect with fellow attendees while exploring all the fun and fascinating aspects of DEF CON. Whether you're new to DEF CON, a beginner at code-breaking, or simply seeking a stress-free contest, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Test your skills in clue reading and code-breaking as you join in on the fun!
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The ICS Village CTF offers hands-on experiences with industrial control systems, which bridge technology with physics. Attendees engage with industry experts while solving challenges like a red vs blue manufacturing network process coupled with OT-specific jeopardy-stye challenges.
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August 9, 2024
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Try to capture malware by writing your own EDR, or become the malware to bypass detection! BOMBE (Battle of Malware Bypass and EDR) is a unique match where malware and EDR systems compete against each other inside a single VM boxing ring.
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August 5, 2024
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You have been randomly selected for additional security training. Be on the look out for one of our drives, USBs or surprise devices out here in Vegas, and follow along on @LonelyHardDrive for further clues to start hacking away at the puzzles.
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June 29, 2024
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How far will you go? Or, more accurately, how far was your tag's last reported location? Pre-register your team to receive one of a dozen tags, and check out our socials (@LonelyHardDrive) to watch the tags move across the map!
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June 29, 2024
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Your friend called. They had their place raided. They swear it's a setup. But now they're in jail and you're the only hope they have. Can you collect the evidence that will let them walk free? Where should you look? The evidence is everywhere, and it could be anywhere.
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Players will have to join the mission and participate in a CTF that would be beneficial for beginners and experienced players alike. The challenge categories will be Web, Cryptography, Forensics, PWN(binary exploitation) and Reverse Engineering.
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HardWired
Hardwired networks are often overlooked in today’s world of cellular connection and Wi-Fi, but they still play an important part in the backbone of information sharing. We believe that while cutting-edge technologies are thrilling, traditional skills-building still has its place, and we want to provide that opportunity to the DEF CON community.
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Grab some solder and update your JTAGulator! The Hardware Hacking Village (HHV) is back with another DEF CON hardware hacking-focused Capture the Flag (CTF) competition. This is a jeopardy style CTF, designed to challenge participants in various aspects of hardware hacking.
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June 29, 2024
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This contest is simple, and is designed to teach you the basics of transmitter direction finding and “fox hunting”.
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August 8, 2024
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In this MarSec event we will engage convention goers with a number of different tabletop games to help them understand the operational issues surrounding offensive and defensive cyber operations in a port complex.
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HackFortress is a unique blend of Team Fortress 2 and a computer security contest. Teams are made up of 6 TF2 players and 4 hackers. TF2 players duke it out while hackers are busy with challenges like application security, network security, social engineering, or reverse engineering.
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August 3, 2024
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Hacker Jeopardy
Contestants will try to outwit their other teams and prove that, yes, they are in fact smarter than a CISSP. Well, sometimes anyway.
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July 5, 2024
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Get ready to strut your stuff, hackers! We're thrilled to announce the 6th annual Hack3r Runw@y returning to DEF CON 32, bigger and bolder than ever.
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June 27, 2024
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This Pac-Man themed set of challenges takes Players on a journey through learning and demonstrating hacker and information security skills to earn points.
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July 19, 2024
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Love puzzles? Need a place to exercise your classical and modern cryptography skills? This puzzle can keep you intrigued and busy throughout DEF CON - and questioning how deep the layers of cryptography go.
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June 29, 2024
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The embedded device CTF contest is an exciting opportunity to explore the intricacies of these systems and test your skills in a competitive environment. Contestants are challenged to find vulnerabilities in the firmware or hardware and exploit them to gain access or control over the device.
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DEF CON MUD
want to hack on a custom 26 year old code base? Like to play text based games? The DEFCON MUD has you covered.
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The DEFCON Scavenger Hunt promises to challenge your skills, tickle your wits, and ignite your hacker spirit. Our list is a portal to mystery, mischief, and mayhem. Assemble your team of up to five members, interpret the items, and submit your findings at the booth to our esteemed judges. Go beyond the basics for bonus points. Legends are born here.
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The DEF CON (unofficial) Beard and Mustache Contest highlights the intersection of facial hair and hacker culture.
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June 27, 2024
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As part of our challenge we will present contestants with the exact same design and compare the outputs they produce against a number of categories in order to identify a winner and crown DEF CON’s Next Top Threat Model(er).
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Here's your chance to be part of hacker culture, by creating something that people around the world will treasure and proudly display. Submit original artwork in the theme of the con, that you believe best exemplifies hacker culture, that will be used as printed stickers.
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June 15, 2024
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The DEF CON Kubernetes Capture the Flag (CTF) contest features a Kubernetes-based CTF challenge, where teams and individuals can build and test their Kubernetes hacking skills.
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Darknet-NG is an Alternate Reality Game (ARG), where the players take on the Persona of an Agent who is sent on Quests to learn real skills and gain in-game points.
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As a player, you are part of a Global Cyber Protection Team (GCPT) assigned to the mission to prevent various attacks on critical infrastructure. Your task is to use the available information that your team has at your disposal to stop the adversary from achieving their objective.
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Crash and Compile
Teams are given programming challenges and have to solve them with code. If your code fails to compile? Take a drink. Segfault? Take a drink. Did your code fail to produce the correct answer when you ran it? Take a drink.
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CMD+CTRL Web App Hacking Challenge gives you the opportunity to showcase your red team skills by attacking real web applications. The CMD+CTRL platform is a hacking game designed to teach the fundamentals of web application security.
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Our CTF is a two days jeopardy style contest where we have a bunch of challenges hosted across multiple Cloud providers across multiple categories of difficulty.
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A contest that would appeal across a broad spectrum of skill levels by integrating a variety of puzzles, both modern and traditional, to attract a wider audience from a complete beginner new to the hackerspace to the more seasoned and advanced hacker.
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The Car Hacking Village CTF is a fun interactive challenge which gives contestants first hand experience to interact with automotive technologies. We work with multiple automotive OEMs and suppliers to ensure our challenges give a real-world experience to car hacking.
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Each year we practically re-invent ourselves, bringing the latest tools & techniques along with never seen before content across 17 categories to unleash hell on the mostly-unsuspecting attendees. For ’24 we have added tons of new content, and new types of challenges never seen before.
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Blue Team Village CTF
The Blue Team Village (BTV) CTF is a cyber defense Capture the Flag inspired by a mix of trending nation-state actor kill chains and at least one custom insider threat story. You are an incident responder tasked to investigate several incidents involving different operating systems and OT devices.
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June 29, 2024
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Merge the worlds of biology and cybersecurity in an adrenaline-pumping contest that tests your skills in ways you've never imagined. Thrilling and challenging cybersecurity adventure centered around a hospital setting as a scenario where participants engage in a race against time to secure or retrieve critical medical data, navigating through various cybersecurity puzzles and challenges, where participants act as guardians of critical biological data.
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June 15, 2024
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The BIC Village Capture The Flag is a jeopardy style event designed to practice solving challenges in multiple categories. This event seeks to not only be a series of puzzles and challenges to solve, but a gamified way to learn concepts of social justice and Black history.
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June 29, 2024
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Hacker Cooling Contraption Challenge
We would like to see cancer become a thing of the past, and you can help. How? Join the Hacker Cooling Contraption Challenge
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We’re going all in on internet freedom. Take a break from hacking the Gibson to face off with your competition at the tables—and benefit EFF!
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June 29, 2024
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AW, MAN PAGES
How well do *you* know your man pages? Find out by teaming up with up to 3 other people (or come solo and get matched up with some new friends) and play "Aw, man...pages!".
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June 27, 2024
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The AutoDriving CTF contest focuses on the emerging security challenges in autonomous driving systems.
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June 29, 2024
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The AIxCC Experience at DEF CON 32
is an immersive and interactive competition environment and educational
space to inspire people and organizations to accelerate the development of
AI-enabled cyber defenses. Attendees will explore a futuristic city where
they can learn all about the competition, the technology, and the power of
AI to help secure the software we all depend on.
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Adversary War CTF centers around mimicking enterprise infrastructure and corresponding challenges. These challenges are meant to push the participants towards adopting various TTPs that adversaries and threat actors use within a definitive time frame.
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This is a contest about bribery. Bribery is not only allowed, it is required as part of the contest, since it's the only way to move up the leaderboard.
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5n4ck3y
5N4CK3Y is a vending machine hardware hacking project from AND!XOR. We retrofitted it into an IoT CTF based badge dispensing machine, bling and all. Find a flag on our web hosted CTF platform, you get a 5N4CK3Y dispense code, punch it in, and a badge is vended to you!
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This year, engagement is not just a theme—it's a journey through the multidimensional realms of hacking.
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June 29, 2024
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Creative Writing Short Story Contest
The Short Story Contest encourages skills that are invaluable in the hacker’s world, but are often overlooked. Creative writing in a contest setting helps celebrate creativity and originality in arenas other than hardware or software hacking and provides a creative outlet for individuals who may not have another place to tell their stories.
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IoT Village CTF
The IoT village pi eating contest is a challenge where participants put their hardwear hacking experience to the test by going head to head with other hackers. Participants will be provided all the tooling necessary to get a root shell on an IoT device. Whoever roots the device in the shortest time wins.
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Contestants will not be creating the art themselves; instead, they will focus on designing prompts for well-known topics that push the boundaries of creativity and innovation.
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In SECVC, teams go toe to toe by placing live vishing (voice phishing) phone calls in front of the Social Engineering Community audience at DEF CON. These calls showcase the duality of ease and complexity of the craft against the various levels of preparedness and defenses by actual companies.
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Here at Pub Quiz, we felt the need to add additional prizes for 4th and 5th place. We had a very successful one last year and we have made some improvements to make it every better. So do you like Pub Quizzes?? If you do then get your butts to join us in participating in the 2nd Pub Quiz at DEF CON 32.
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Join us for an electrifying two-day Live Reconnaissance Event. Whether you're a seasoned security expert or a curious newcomer, this is your chance to test your skills in a high-octane environment.
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The Red Team CTF is designed to simulate real-world challenges in which attackers are put to the test. Participants are expected to use a wide range of hacking techniques, tools, and skills to identify and exploit vulnerabilities.
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You've been contacted by journalists and whistleblowers who need help sifting through some big dumps of encrypted data and password hashes.
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Two teams (Left Foot and Right Foot) captained by members of OnlyFeet and comprised of audience members go head to head, trying to figure out the top answers to the survey questions.
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