Tag: DEF CON

Sign highlighting DEF CON villages

Is a DEF CON Village the right way to assess AI risk?

The AI industry is pointing to the AI Village at DEF CON as a venue for assessing cybersecurity risk. But is a “village” the best way to test AI risk? Experts have their doubts.

A jailbroken John Deere monitor running a version of the DOOM FPS

UPDATE DEF CON DOOM Patrol: Deere Jailbreak Raises Questions on Security, Competition

A researcher presented the results of a year-long effort to reverse engineer John Deere hardware to run a version of the DOOM first person shooter. He also discovered a number of security flaws along the way.

Storm on the Farm

DEF CON: Security Holes in Deere, Case IH Shine Spotlight on Agriculture Cyber Risk

A demonstration at DEF CON of glaring flaws in software by agricultural equipment giants John Deere and Case IH raise the specter of remote, software-based attacks that could cripple farms and impact US food production.

Episode 160 Right to Repair’s Summer of Love – Sort of.

call it Right to Repair’s “Summer of Love.” Summer 2019 saw developments on a number of fronts in the nation-wide battle to win a digital right to repair. In this podcast, we talk with Nathan Proctor of US PIRG’s Right to Repair campaign and Kyle Wiens of iFixit about the developments.