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The online registration early bird rate ends May 22! Get your tickets at shop.defcon.org before the regular rate kicks in.
We are in the home stretch, people. Feel free to get a little amped.
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The FBI announced it took down the "full-service cybercrime platform" W3LL, which allowed cybercriminals to purchase a phishing kit to create fake login pages.
W3LL “facilitated the sale of more than 25,000 compromised accounts,” over the years according to the FBI.
I can say without hesitation that this is the HARDEST article I have ever written, but I am incredibly proud of it.
If you have questions about Orion’s heat shield, given the issues with Artemis I, I hope I can provide some answers:
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
The UUA has released a statement regarding a DOD decision affecting Unitarian Universalist service members and many other religious communities. No government action can erase our faith or diminish the support it provides to those who serve.
Read more: bit.ly/4dRzULN
#UU #ReligiousFreedom
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The Unitarian Universalist Association
#DEFCON34 Music Announcement!
They have been selected. These are the mighty masters of groove charged with keeping your rumps shaking at #DEFCON. We salute them and look forward to their musical service.
Let’s GoOo!
Apple tried to turn its late arrival into its sales pitch: It didn’t rush into AI because it was taking its time to do things right. In this case, “right” means “with more privacy than anyone else.”
It’s a good pitch — the question will be how well it holds up.
Read more from @dompreston.com:
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New —> Iranian hackers posed as job recruiters to target software engineers in the aviation sector. Pretended to be a US airline. They have also tried to break into a US oil and gas company in this wartime espionage scheme, per Unit 42 researchers: www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/p...
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Cybercriminals allegedly used the W3LL phishing kit to target more than 17,000 victims worldwide, stealing their passwords and multi-factor authentication codes.
Iranian hackers have posed as job recruiters to target software engineers in the aviation sector as part of an elaborate espionage scheme during the US and Israeli war with Iran, cybersecurity researc...
Excess charring on Artemis I's heat shield had NASA racing to understand what went wrong—and to ensure the technology was still safe for the current crew's high-speed reentry.
Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack that delivered malware designed to steal developer secrets.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
A US agency abruptly closed an investigation into allegations that Meta Platforms Inc. can access encrypted WhatsApp messages, said two people familiar with the matter, ending a law enforcement inquiry into claims that challenge how the company markets the chat service’s privacy.
