DEF CON 34 · Aug 2026

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The Cyber Owl - DEF CON 33

The Cyber Owl

DC33 · 2025

The Recon Soldier - DEF CON 32

The Recon Soldier

DC32 · 2024

The Spy Silhouette - DEF CON 31

The Spy Silhouette

DC31 · 2023

The Radar Badge - DEF CON 30

The Radar Badge

DC30 · 2022

The Skull Badge - DEF CON 27

The Skull Badge

DC27 · 2019

The Dual Design - DEF CON 26

The Dual Design

DC26 · 2018

The Original - DEF CON 25

The Original

DC25 · 2017

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Easy EASM

Zero dollar attack surface management

BBOT

Recursive internet scanner

OWASP Amass

Attack surface mapping & asset discovery

SkipTracer

OSINT python webscraping framework

DorXNG

Next gen search engine dorking tool

DataSploit

OSINT recon framework

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Past events · YouTube talks

2025 · Recon Village @ DEF CON 33

Autonomous Video Hunter: AI Agents for Real-Time OSINT

Autonomous Video Hunter: AI Agents for Real-Time OSINT

Building Local Knowledge Graphs for OSINT: Bypassing Rate Limits and Maintaining OPSEC

Building Local Knowledge Graphs for OSINT: Bypassing Rate Limits and Maintaining OPSEC

CTI-Agent: Automated battlecards from CTI reports

CTI-Agent: Automated battlecards from CTI reports

Discord OSINT: An Empathic Banana and a Data Scraper Walk into a Search Bar

Discord OSINT: An Empathic Banana and a Data Scraper Walk into a Search Bar

enumeraite: AI assisted web attack surface enumeration

enumeraite: AI assisted web attack surface enumeration

2024 · Recon Village @ DEF CON 32

Bastardo Grande: Hunting the Largest Black Market Bike Fence In The World

Bastardo Grande: Hunting the Largest Black Market Bike Fence In The World

Bypassing WHOIS Rate Limiting and Alerting on Fresh Enterprise Domains

Bypassing WHOIS Rate Limiting and Alerting on Fresh Enterprise Domains

GeoINT Mastery: A pixel is worth a thousand words

GeoINT Mastery: A pixel is worth a thousand words

Maltego Community Workshop

Maltego Community Workshop

OSINT at Clemson: Unmasking John Mark Dougan's Disinformation Empire

OSINT at Clemson: Unmasking John Mark Dougan's Disinformation Empire

2023 · Recon Village @ DEF CON 31

Azure AD recon with OSINT tools

Azure AD recon with OSINT tools

Bug Bounty Recon - Bypassing Geographic DNS with Ensemble

Bug Bounty Recon - Bypassing Geographic DNS with Ensemble

Bugs, Bounties, & Breaches - Insider Tales from the Trenches

Bugs, Bounties, & Breaches - Insider Tales from the Trenches

Crushing crumbs of information to eat a whole cake.

Crushing crumbs of information to eat a whole cake.

Easy EASM - the zero dollar attack surface management tool

Easy EASM - the zero dollar attack surface management tool

2021 · Recon Village @ DEF CON 29

.GOV Doppelgänger: Your Häx Dollars at Work

.GOV Doppelgänger: Your Häx Dollars at Work

Adversary Infrastructure Tracking with Mihari

Adversary Infrastructure Tracking with Mihari

Can I Make My Own Social Threat Score?

Can I Make My Own Social Threat Score?

Finding Hidden Gems via URL Shortener Services

Finding Hidden Gems via URL Shortener Services

Future of Asset Management

Future of Asset Management

2020 · Recon Village @ DEF CON Safe Mode

Ambly the Darknet Spider

Ambly the Darknet Spider

Burnout is Real

Burnout is Real

COVID 1984: Pandemic Propaganda and Surveillance

COVID 1984: Pandemic Propaganda and Surveillance

Hunting for Blue Mockingbird Coinminers

Hunting for Blue Mockingbird Coinminers

Twitter Word Phrequency

Twitter Word Phrequency

2019 · Recon Village @ DEF CON 27

“Can you add a conference line, please?” - Using Cloud Services for Dial-In Reconnaissance Automation

“Can you add a conference line, please?” - Using Cloud Services for Dial-In Reconnaissance Automation

A URL Shortened By Any Other Name

A URL Shortened By Any Other Name

Advanced Recon with OWASP Amass

Advanced Recon with OWASP Amass

Asset Discovery: Making Sense of the Ocean of OSINT

Asset Discovery: Making Sense of the Ocean of OSINT

Building an OSINT and Recon Program to address Healthcare Information Security issues

Building an OSINT and Recon Program to address Healthcare Information Security issues

2018 · Recon Village @ DEF CON 26

1983: I’m born. 2018: I’m taking on the bad guys

1983: I’m born. 2018: I’m taking on the bad guys

Adventures in the dark web of government data

Adventures in the dark web of government data

Applied OSINT For Politics: Turning Open Data Into News

Applied OSINT For Politics: Turning Open Data Into News

Bug Bounty Hunting on Steroids

Bug Bounty Hunting on Steroids

Building visualisation platforms for OSINT data using open source solutions

Building visualisation platforms for OSINT data using open source solutions

2017 · Recon Village @ DEF CON 25

An Introduction to Graph Theory for OSINT

An Introduction to Graph Theory for OSINT

Attack Surface Discovery with Intrigue

Attack Surface Discovery with Intrigue

Building Google For Criminal Enterprises

Building Google For Criminal Enterprises

Do Tinder Bots Dream of Electric Toys? How Tinder Bots are breaking hearts all over the world, and trashing Tinder’s reputation while they’re at it.

Do Tinder Bots Dream of Electric Toys? How Tinder Bots are breaking hearts all over the world, and trashing Tinder’s reputation while they’re at it.

Domain Discovery: Expanding your scope like a boss

Domain Discovery: Expanding your scope like a boss

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