LAS VEGAS — DEF CON, the world’s largest hacker conference, is trying to put its legions of experts to work by creating a volunteer army to help protect America’s vulnerable water systems and schools.

This weekend, thousands of hackers are gathering in Las Vegas at DEF CON, an annual conference dedicated to hacking and cybersecurity. NPR's Shannon Bond is there to find out what people are hacking ...

James Rice, lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, is presenting the cybersecurity game Hacker Troll House on Aug. 9 at DEF CON 33 in Las Vegas. Rice created the game where users take on a ...

SOMEWHERE IN NEVADA — On a scorching August afternoon some 10 miles away from the DEF CON hacker conference situated in the heart of the Las Vegas strip, White House National Cyber Director Harry ...

At DEF CON, Alexei Bulazel said AI-powered tools will give software developers “incredible abilities” to harden networks by adding multilayered checks to the code-scanning process and catching flaws ...

Mathias gets a glimpse into a growing and technically formidable hacker community at Las Vegas confab If you’re in any way involved in information security, you owe it to yourself to make a trip to ...

Data from the human vs. machine challenge could provide a framework for government and enterprise policies around generative AI. OpenAI, Google, Meta and more companies put their large language models ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While cyberattacks are expected against every industry, the network of the roughly 50,000 independent water and wastewater ...