Think your car and route to work are safe? Your baby monitor? Is your text messaging private? Think again. A host of research unveiled at the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas over the last few ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LAS VEGAS — At DEF CON, anyone can learn to ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Corey Nachreiner on Oct 16, 2017 at 6:00 pm October 16, 2017 at 2:40 ...

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 ...

A great place to get your feet wet with the data-network-wonderland that is modern-day automobiles is the Car Hacking Village at DEF CON. I stopped by on Saturday afternoon to see what it was all ...

You might've noticed that your regular news outlets have way more hysterical, random-seeming and utterly terrifying articles about hacking this week. That's because hacking conference Def Con happened ...

AUSTIN, Texas - If you're looking to hack your body, Austin was the place to be over the weekend. "So, it's about treating the body as a system, understanding it and making it do what you want," said ...

The Hackaday Superconference was last weekend, and it was the greatest hardware con on the planet. What can you build out of a conference badge? If you answered “a resin-based 3D printer” you would ...

Last month, security researchers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller made headlines when they remotely hacked a Jeep Cherokee, killing the transmission as a Wired reporter drove at high-speed down the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive ideas in science, technology and culture. Michael Venables: How would you define "hacking" and what is it ...

Last year, hackers penetrated every single voting machine they tried to breach. At DEF CON, one of the world’s largest hacking conferences, hackers clad in black hoodies made headlines last year when ...

As one of the world's largest gatherings of hackers, the Def Con conference has long welcomed experts from the security industry and the U.S. government, along with academics and hackers. But this ...