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DEFCON kids was created for beginner hackers age 8-16.īut Cyfi wasn’t just helping found this child’s mini conference she was also a speaker at the Defcon security conference where she led a talk called, ' Apps - A Traveler of Both Time and Space And What I Learned About Zero-Days and Responsible Disclosure.”ĭuring her talk Cyfi revealed that she had discovered a zero-day exploit in games on iOS and Android devices, the exploit has been confirmed as a new class of vulnerability by researchers. And not just any hackers you know, these are the ones they make movies about. Defcon Kids is part of DEFCON, the largest gathering of hackers in the world. Oh and she also happens to be the co-founder of DEFCON Kids. The story of this ten-year-old girl was one those stories.Ĭyfi is a ten-year-old hacker, artist, Girl Scout and athlete in California. “There is much to gain and benefit from this massive analysis of personal information, or big data, but there are also complex tradeoffs that come from giving away our privacy.Sometimes when perusing the web for interesting articles and stories about SheHeroes around the world, I stumble upon someone who just sticks with me. I study privacy policies, and I spend a lot of time reading them, and I do not spend 244 hours per year reading privacy policies.” Lorrie Cranor, director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Lab “It would take people 244 hours per year to read all of the privacy policies at all of the websites they visit in one year. It looks like a smarter, more pleasant experience interacting with complex computer security systems to help make a safer world for our friends, our families and our children.” Marios Savvides, director of CyLab’s Biometrics Center “A world that uses facial recognition does not look like Hollywood’s Minority Report.

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“We hack because we care about security, and we want to protect people from potential threats by identifying problems systematically.” Yuan Tian, software security researcher in CyLab The person who solves it often gains a better understanding of the problem than its creator.” David Brumley, software security researcher in CyLab Some teams participated in-person at the conference venue in Las Vegas, while others-including PPP-participated remotely. Sixteen qualifying teams took part in this year’s competition, representing China, Israel, Italy, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States. Over the course of the 72-hour hacking spree, teams of hackers worked to steal digital flags from their opponents’ computer servers while simultaneously trying to protect their own. Zardus, pseudonym of a hacker who helped organize this year's competition These are Olympic-level hackers who come from across the world to show their skills. “These are Olympic-level hackers who come from across the world to show their skills,” said Zardus, a pseudonym of a hacker who helped organize and run this year’s competition, at the DefCon closing ceremonies on Sunday.Īs cybersecurity threats continue to grow and countless attacks make the daily headlines, competitions like DefCon's digital Capture the Flag give an opportunity for the most talented cybersecurity engineers to measure up against one another and learn about new techniques. This year, the competed remotely.Ĭarnegie Mellon’s hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), placed 2 nd this weekend at the annual DefCon cybersecurity conference’s Capture the Flag competition, widely regarded as the “Olympics of Hacking.” A member of Carnegie Mellon’s hacking team, PPP, competes in the DefCon Capture the Flag competition in 2015.

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