Every summer for the last 26 years, hoards of hackers have descended on the Las Vegas Strip for DEFCON, the biggest hacker conference in the US. There's a wealth of talks every season (DEFCON 27 has at least 95 scheduled), and there have been some essential topics to learn from in past discussions. We've dug through the last ten years and found the 15 most popular talks you should watch.
A couple of months after one of its conferences ends, DEFCON diligently posts videos of speakers' talks on YouTube, so you never have to worry about missing one. It's not uncommon for people that physically attend DEFCON to never go to a speech, and they can also rely on watching them on YouTube afterward.
DEFCON is all about socializing and networking, which makes it easy to wonder where all the time for talks went after leaving. But that doesn't mean that the discussions aren't worth watching. They can be profound, and it's not uncommon for zero-days to drop. Presentations can be anything from in-depth how-to guides and 101 classes to funny hacker storytime sessions.
Whether you're new to DEFCON or you're a veteran attendee, make sure to check out the following 15 talks. They're sessions over the years that every hacker or aspiring hacker should view. For the list, we've used view counts as the scoring metric, in order from lowest to highest. View counts come from all versions on YouTube, duplicate content included. The views counts of the videos embedded here do not represent all the view counts, so keep that in mind.
1. Cracking 400,000 Passwords (273,000 Views)
To start, we have a presentation about cracking massive password lists, an excellent primer on cracking passwords ..
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