It has been fascinating to watch the rise of the #BadgeLife community in North America, and a little sad when viewed from a European perspective that their creative vibrancy has not quite fully made ...

To say that 2020 was a transformative year would be something of an understatement. The COVID-19 pandemic completely changed the way we worked, learned, and lived. Despite all those jokes about how ...

Now, now, don’t get too excited. Creator Joe Grand designed it to be hacked. Still, 10 minutes is a pretty respectable time for the soldering, reprogramming and reflashing job done by Dave Bullock, ...

At previous Def Cons I wrote about the unofficial badges and the culture surrounding those pieces of technology. This year I was determined to move past my infatuation with blinking lights and ...

Joe Grand, once known as Kingpin with the legendary hacking group L0pht, has co-hosted the Discovery Channel's Prototype This and runs Grand Idea Studio. But Grand, an electrical engineer, was the ...

If you are attending the upcoming DEF CON conference you may be interested in a new hackable electronic badge created by electronics hacker John Adams. The DEF CON badge comes equipped with RGB LEDs, ...

LAS VEGAS—There are many things that make the DEFCON conference stand above all other hacking conferences. It’s the largest, of course, with over 30,000 attendees, sprawling over four hotels in Las ...

Annual hacker outing Defcon has become so popular, attendees have been – predictably – scamming their way in for years by creating fake badges. But not this year, as organizers created a souped-up, ...