Blacks in Cyber Village·35 min
Stephanie Barnes
Stephanie Barnes examines cryptocurrency adoption in minority communities and the risks Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) pose without inclusive design.
cryptocurrencycbdcdigital-divide+2
11-14 August 2022 · Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah's, and Linq, Las Vegas
DEF CON 30
10 villages · 207 talks
Villages at this event
After Hours
4 talks
Nighttime highlights, weather events, and behind-the-scenes community stories filmed by Ry and the DEF CON Video Team at DEF CON 30.
Blacks in Cyber Village
7 talks
Blacks in Cyber Village at DEF CON 30 showcases research on software supply chains, machine learning trustworthiness, digital financial privacy, and career growth systems.
Blue Team Village
24 talks
Blue Team Village at DEF CON 30 focuses on digital forensics, incident response, threat hunting tradecraft, malware reverse engineering, and defensive tooling.
Car Hacking Village
9 talks
Car Hacking Village at DEF CON 30 focuses on automotive cybersecurity, CAN bus reverse engineering, connected car telematics exploitation, ECU fuzzing, and vehicle biometrics.
DCGVR Village
14 talks
DCGVR (DEF CON Groups Virtual Reality) Village at DEF CON 30 connects global hacker groups with community presentations on cloud exploitation, hardware security, packet analysis, and social engineering.
ICS Village
3 talks
ICS Village at DEF CON 30 focuses on securing industrial control systems, SCADA environments, operational technology (OT), and critical infrastructure through hands-on challenges and presentations.
Live CTF
4 talks
Live CTF at DEF CON 30 features head-to-head, real-time binary exploitation and reverse engineering battles between top competitive hacker teams with live commentary.
Main Stage
91 talks
Main Stage presentations at DEF CON 30 covering cutting-edge hardware hacking, cloud security, binary exploitation, automotive systems, cryptography, satellite communications, and cyber policy.
Retail Hacking
1 talks
Retail Hacking Village at DEF CON 30 focuses on point-of-sale systems, automated teller machines (ATMs), payment processing security, and commercial retail hardware exploitation.
Village Interviews
50 talks
Village Interviews at DEF CON 30 showcases village organizers, interactive demos, hardware badges, and community contests across the convention.
All DC30 talks
1–24 of 149 talks / 207
Blacks in Cyber Village·20 min
Damian Grant
Damian Grant shares personal experiences and actionable strategies for overcoming systemic barriers and implicit bias to thrive in technical cybersecurity roles.
diversitycareer-developmentequity+2
Segun Olaniyan
Segun Olaniyan shares practical 'Growth Systems' for students and aspiring security practitioners to build industry credibility and accelerate their infosec careers.
career-developmentmentorshipeducation+2
Blacks in Cyber Village·46 min
Kassandra Pierre · Nathan Chung
Kassandra Pierre and Nathan Chung explore how neurodiverse cognitive traits (ADHD, autism) provide distinct analytical advantages in cybersecurity operations.
neurodiversitycareer-developmentdiversity+2
Blacks in Cyber Village·59 min
Birhanu Eshete
Dr. Birhanu Eshete evaluates the trustworthiness of machine learning models in healthcare, autonomous driving, and finance, analyzing adversarial attacks and fairness pitfalls.
machine-learningai-securityadversarial-ml+2
Blacks in Cyber Village·44 min
Ochuan Marshall
Ochuan Marshall breaks down Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228), demonstrating how to exploit JNDI lookups in a Minecraft homelab and secure software supply chains.
log4jlog4shelljndi-injection+2
Blacks in Cyber Village·30 min
Alexis Hancock
EFF Director of Engineering Alexis Hancock draws parallels between historical resistance against slavery surveillance and modern anti-censorship tools.
surveillancecovert-channelcryptography+2
Blue Team Village·23 min
Sarthak Taneja
Sarthak Taneja presents an accessible, real-world approach to threat modeling, showing how everyday risk intuition translates to software and architecture defense.
threat-modelingrisk-assessmentsecurity-culture+2
Blue Team Village·21 min
Gilmar Esteves · Filipi Pires
Gilmar Esteves and Filipi Pires present Horusec, an open-source multi-language static analysis (SAST) tool designed to democratize code security scanning.
sasthorusecopen-source+2
Blue Team Village·29 min
Anton Ovrutsky
Anton Ovrutsky demonstrates behavioral detection patterns, static parsing tools, and deobfuscation methods to hunt malicious Office VBA macros.
vbaoffice-macrosthreat-hunting+2
Blue Team Village·59 min
Matt Scheurer
Matt Scheurer shares battle-tested incident response methodologies, telemetry sources, and fast containment strategies for enterprise defenders.
incident-responsetelemetrytriage+2
Blue Team Village·1 hr
Connor Morley
Connor Morley analyzes Windows in-memory injection techniques—including process hollowing and thread hijacking—and how defenders detect them.
memory-forensicswindows-internalsprocess-injection+2
Blue Team Village·52 min
Filipi Pires
Filipi Pires demonstrates techniques for dissecting malicious PDF documents, extracting embedded JavaScript, and uncovering hidden exploit streams.
pdfmalware-analysisthreat-hunting+2
Blue Team Village·18 min
Project Obsidian
Project Obsidian demonstrates writing custom Velociraptor Query Language (VQL) artifacts to hunt for IOCs and collect forensic evidence across thousands of endpoints.
velociraptorvqldfir+2
Blue Team Village·50 min
Project Obsidian
Project Obsidian details hunting for malicious scheduled tasks, cron jobs, and stealthy persistence mechanisms across enterprise endpoints.
scheduled-taskspersistencethreat-hunting+2
Blue Team Village·41 min
Project Obsidian
Project Obsidian demonstrates detecting SharpHound and BloodHound reconnaissance by hunting anomalous LDAP queries and Active Directory enumeration patterns.
bloodhoundactive-directorythreat-hunting+2
Blue Team Village·41 min
Project Obsidian
Project Obsidian demonstrates using graph visualization tools to map phishing infrastructure, identify sender anomalies, and correlate multi-stage campaigns.
phishingthreat-huntinggraph-analysis+2
Blue Team Village·36 min
Project Obsidian
Project Obsidian shows how threat hunters investigate compromises when adversaries clear event logs, leveraging USN journals, volume shadow copies, and memory artifacts.
threat-huntinglog-clearinganti-forensics+2
Blue Team Village·31 min
Project Obsidian
Project Obsidian explains how to extract actionable cyber threat intelligence, TTPs, and indicator clusters from real-time incident investigations.
threat-intelligencectiincident-response+2
Blue Team Village·30 min
Project Obsidian
Project Obsidian shares guidelines for translating complex forensic findings into clear, impactful incident reports for leadership and stakeholders.
incident-responsereportingexecutive-briefing+2
Blue Team Village·38 min
Project Obsidian
Project Obsidian details the critical initial phase of incident response: defining the blast radius, scoping compromised systems, and setting containment boundaries.
incident-responseincident-scopingcontainment+2
Blue Team Village·34 min
Project Obsidian
Project Obsidian breaks down the Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) loop applied to real-time incident triage and crisis response.
incident-responseooda-loopdecision-making+2
Blue Team Village·29 min
Project Obsidian
Project Obsidian walks through an end-to-end endpoint forensic investigation, reconstructing attacker actions using MFT, Prefetch, and Shimcache artifacts.
endpoint-forensicskillchainmft+2
Blue Team Village·46 min
Project Obsidian
Project Obsidian explains forensic preparation and tooling organization to accelerate digital forensics and incident triage workflows.
incident-responseforensicsinvestigation+2