On 20 June 2016 the felon-run conspiracy web site SuperStation95 reported that the U.S. had raised the national defense readiness alert level because "something very big is taking place": At 9:43 PM ...

The backbone of the Defcon network consists of a Cisco fiber switch (second box from top). The firewall (bottom server) is a quad-core Xeon running OpenBSD and employing pf to filter and shape traffic ...

If you've ever watched a movie about modern warfare, you've probably heard the term "DEFCON" thrown around. Some kind of ...

DEFCON is huge. Last year attendance tipped at about 16k, and we’d wager this year will be even bigger. [Brian] and I will both be among those attending (more on that below) but I wanted to take this ...

Rep. Jared Golden, D-ME, warned members of the Democratic Party against going "DEFCON 5" on everything President Donald Trump does in an interview on Friday, explaining it would lose them credibility.

LAS VEGAS — Roughly 10,000 computer hacking enthusiasts, poseurs, geeks, nerds and government agents gathered for DefCon last weekend. In its 18th year, the world’s largest hacker convention draws ...

The Ellisons and RedBird, run by savvy media dealmaker Gerry Cardinale, are mulling something known internally as “DefCon 1.” ...

The hacker conference's "Safe Mode" means that many of its attendees will have to concede to being tracked in some form. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET ...

As Russian troops continue their invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly put his nuclear forces on high alert. Since Russian military forces began invading Ukraine on ...