DEF CON 33

Adversary Village

10 talks

DEF CON 33 Adversary Village — 10 talks from the canonical playlist covering purple teaming, threat emulation, supply chain risks, adversary tradecraft, and cyber economics.

Blacks in Cybersecurity Village

14 talks

DEF CON 33 Blacks in Cybersecurity Village features talks, panels, and workshops highlighting career advancement, diversity, and technical tradecraft. Sessions cover reverse engineering with Ghidra, cyberbiosecurity, AI-driven phishing analysis, DNS threat intelligence, and community initiatives across the global cyber ecosystem.

Car Hacking Village

7 talks

Car Hacking Village at DEF CON 33 explores automotive cybersecurity, vehicle bus architectures, connected infrastructure, and embedded head units. Talks cover TPMS spoofing, odometer manipulation, dealer API vulnerabilities, and EV charging modem exploitation.

Cloud Village

24 talks

DEF CON 33 Cloud Village talks covering cloud security offense and defense across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments.

Community Stage

15 talks

DEF CON 33 Community Stage features presentations on mentorship, digital privacy, grassroots movements, and community-driven security defense. Sessions cover declarative dependency management with Nix, agentic AI security, game hacking parallels to offensive red teaming, and counter-surveillance strategies.

Contests

4 talks

Contests, game shows, and award ceremonies held at DEF CON 33, including Hacker Jeopardy, Whose Slide Is It Anyway, and the annual Pwnie Awards.

Creator Stage

75 talks

DEF CON 33 Creator Stage showcases technical presentations, hardware demonstrations, and research by independent security creators, builders, and practitioners. Talks cover embedded hardware exploitation, automotive and aerospace security, maritime systems, industrial control networks, vulnerability disclosure, and applied machine learning.

Crypto and Privacy Village

8 talks

Crypto and Privacy Village at DEF CON 33 explores applied cryptography, surveillance defense, digital privacy technologies, and post-quantum readiness. Talks cover RNG backdoors, AI shadow data leakage, decentralized protocols, and reconfigurable HSM architectures.

Data Duplication Village

2 talks

DEF CON 33 Data Duplication Village explores data replication protocols, large-scale storage telemetry, decentralized storage abuse, and hardware reliability metrics across modern storage systems.

DEF CON 33

1 talks

DEF CON 33 main track and general talks covering offensive security, defensive operations, hardware hacking, wireless security, policy, and community.

ICS Village

10 talks

ICS Village talks and related uploads.

Live Music

8 talks

Live musical performances, DJ sets, and evening concerts recorded at DEF CON 33 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Main Stage

106 talks

DEF CON 33 Main Stage features the conference's headline presentations, keynotes, and technical security research across hardware, cloud, AI, and offensive tradecraft. Sessions cover silicon exploitation, Active Directory attack paths, kernel vulnerabilities, zero-day research, and critical discussions on privacy and policy.

Mobile Village

1 talks

DEF CON 33 Mobile Village talks covering mobile application security, backend API vulnerabilities, and data leakage across mobile ecosystems.

Packet Hacking Village

4 talks

DEF CON 33 Packet Hacking Village features presentations on traffic analysis, detection pipelines, and honeypot design. The sessions at this event cover deepfake media detection, IoT telemetry contextualization, bot fingerprinting with dynamic deception, and the history of interactive SSH honeypot workshops.

Payment Village

5 talks

Payment Village at DEF CON 33 explores payment system security, point-of-sale systems, ATM exploitation, contactless transaction protocols, and financial fraud. Talks cover carding market evolution, AI-driven fraud testing, pig butchering scam tracking, and ATM physical penetration.

Previews

6 talks

Preview videos and promotional spotlights highlighting villages and major events at DEF CON 33.

Quantum Village

1 talks

DEF CON 33 Quantum Village talks exploring quantum computing threats, Shor algorithm optimizations, and post-quantum cryptographic transitions.

Recon Village

16 talks

DEF CON 33 Recon Village — 16 talks from the canonical v1 playlist.

RF Village

13 talks

DEF CON 33 RF Village features presentations, demonstrations, and contests exploring radio frequency security, software-defined radio, and wireless protocols. Sessions cover Meshtastic LoRa reverse engineering, aerial wardriving from general aviation aircraft, cellular testbeds for IMSI catcher detection, and smartcard analysis.

Village Interviews

35 talks

Interviews, village walkthroughs, and contest spotlights produced by the DEF CON Video Team at DEF CON 33.

Voting Village

17 talks

DEF CON 33 Voting Village features research, symposium panels, and hands-on evaluations of election technology and physical voting systems. Sessions cover physical security of voting terminals, statistical Risk-Limiting Audits, ballot marking devices, legal safe harbors under the DMCA, and lessons from landmark state security reviews.