Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Def Con, one of the largest and longest-running hacking conferences in the world, announced on Wednesday that three people linked ...

The phrase I saw and heard over and over again while talking to other journalists and security researchers about the Def Con hacker convention was "hostile environment." Not physically hostile; the ...

In February, when the Def Con hacker conference released its annual transparency report, the public learned that one of the most prominent figures in the field of social engineering had been ...