Congrats To DEF CON 21 CTF Winners!

Posted 8.8.13

A hearty congratulations to Plaid Parliament of Pwning for taking this year's CTF crown! Thank you to Legitimate Business Syndicate for running a great game! Head on over to legitbs.net for the scoreboard of this year's Capture the Flag and a wrap up of the event.

DEF CON 21 - The Official Soundtrack!

Posted 8.7.13

Thanks to the huge success of DEF CON's 20th anniversary compilation, we've brought it back again and stepped up our game. This year, we present you with "DEF CON 21: The Official Soundtrack:" 20 tracks of pure nerd fuel for hacking. The compilation features many of the talented acts in attendance at the conference, like BT (seriously!), Faderhead (for real!), and far beyond that with generous submissions from the likes of PANTyRAiD and Gramatik.

As if that wasn't enough, this release is completely free/donation-based, with 100% of the generated revenue going straight to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF / http://eff.org), a 501(c)3 not-for-profit dedicated to protecting our Internet freedoms and privacy.

Get on over to the Gravitas Recordings (the awesome label donating their time, energy, PR skills, and distribution networks to the cause) Bandcamp release page to grab this sonic goodness, check the full track-list, and ***DONATE***!

LINK: http://music.gravitasrecordings.com/album/def-con-21-the-official-soundtrack

Cheers to an awesome DEF CON 21!

Posted 8.7.13

Well folks, that's another DEF CON on the books, and it was a great one! We're starting to make it home, and gather contest results, press, content, photos, and everything else from a fantastic DEF CON 21, so keep an eye on this space, our Twitter, and Facebook in the coming days and weeks as it is scribed into the archives!

Big thanks to all of the attendees, You give us the reason to do this every year, and we're ecstatic that you travel to the middle of the desert in the dead of summer to enjoy our gathering! To all of the goons, your tireless efforts and dedication shine year after year as we move through each and every con, thank you all. A big thank you all of those who contribute their time, enthusiasm, knowledge, and talent to DEF CON through speaking, performing, and running contests, events, villages, and parties.

Stay tuned, and we hope to see you all at DEF CON 22!

Birds of a Feather tonight at DEF CON 21!

Posted 8.3.13

Birds of a Feather?! More like Nerds of a Feather! … or something. This year we're going to keep the content going into the night with Birds of a Feather/Bars of a Feather sessions. As part of the Defcon 21 Pub Crawl, grab yourself a beer and get your geek on!(read on...)

Media-21 Server at DEF CON 21!

Posted 8.2.13

The media server from last year is back! Upload and Download! WarEz AlerT!

If you're on the conference network, point your browser at ftp://dc21-media.defcon.org!

What you will find:
Images of this year's conference materials, music, art and pictures as well as everything we can find from years past as well as a limited reading directory and other security odds and ends. Grab what you want, and please upload and share what you have related to the con. We would love to get pictures, write ups, wordlists, whatever you may have! And for those of you in a rush we will also have physical wired LAN connections to the media server at the Info Booth where you can plug in, get a DHCP address, and start leeching directly. Play nice!

DC21 Pre-con Badge Challenge Revealed

Posted 7.29.13 by Darth Null

About a month ago, Nikita mentioned on twitter that she wanted ideas for a badge giveaway contest. Banasidhe suggested she ask G. Mark Hardy to write a crypto contest, and he recruited me to help. So together we came up with the basic outline of the puzzle, he wrote the clues, and I built the puzzle. For reasons that will shortly become apparent, though, we kept his involvement quiet. (read full story)

Floorplan Posted

Posted 7.24.13

If you want to get an idea of the con space for this year, we have posted the floor plan on the DEF CON 21 Venue page!

DEFCON 21 Entertainment Pages!

Posted 7.20.13

The DEF CON 21 Entertainment pages are now live! Soak in all the info on our live acts, including a schedule, and artist pages with bios and links to their work! Thanks to Great Scott for all of his hard work creating these pages for your DEF CON 21 party planning needs!

DEF CON XXI HUMAN BADGE CHALLENGE

Posted 7.14.13

Contests? You like contests? Here's a contest. Find all the other contests in the puzzle below. Once you've done that, solve the rest of the puzzle for prizes galore!

Once you have solved the puzzle go to our contest entry page to enter. http://preview.tinyurl.com/DC21Puzzle
There's more than one way to win!

• If you enter the correct answer for the first stage you will be entered into the drawing for a free DEF CON 21 T-shirt, redeemable at DEF CON 21!

• If you enter the correct answer to the second stage you are entered in the drawing to win a DEF CON 21 T-shirt and a Human Badge! That means you can save your money for having fun in Las Vegas, AND you get to skip the badge line!

L B H U N I S R Q B A R I R C E L J R Y Y
F B S N E S C A V E N G E R H U N T A D B
J E X P L O I T H A C K A T H O N S I B E
G U L R C E S V C M R C U R E R V M F L H
B H E I P D N Y H E K R P U R V A F G Y A
U R A R P J E U B M J I F G B R S U R G C
N G P X W M R F E R M O E W Y R B O A C K
N E N Q A L O I E P K K R P K K T L H T E
K H I I L V F C M H V W T P X S F R A Z R
E O C Y L Y K Y D S T N O M T E T M C M J
G L B J O O R P F N E T M R H E P F K Z E
D O I U F A O X A C A S O T P E N P F X O
A N C H S P W C K A B H E P R G C K O H P
I A Z C H I T N E E S R S E S A B V R E A
N J A W E L E Z W G U C V A D B B T T A R
X L A X E T N Z O T A I M X R K B B R H D
B C I F P I Y X P Q D R G L B C M L E B Y
R N S C H E M A V E R S E C H A M P S G F
G S T R H B C C N Z F Z A V F L X M S A F
D X M G R J L T U F P R N G E B F J M K W
C T J Q W D E X E J H E D W M B K K K K K

Words to search for:

BEVERAGECOOLING
BLACKBAG
CAPTURETHEFLAG
CRACKMEIFYOUCAN
CRASHANDCOMPILE
DARKNETPROJECT
EXPLOITHACKATHON
HACKERJEOPARDY
HACKFORTRESS
NETWORKFORENSICS
PIMPMYRASCAL
SCAVENGERHUNT
SCHMAVERSECHAMP
SHORTSTORY
SPOTTHEFED
TAMPEREVIDENT
TENKCENTPYRAMID
WALLOFSHEEP

(download printable pdf here)

To submit your answers, go here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/DC21Puzzle

We'd like to thank @DarthNull, for his help in coming up with this Challenge. We can't wait to see you guys in Vegas! Good luck, and thanks for playing!