We threw an art show at a hacker conference to try and bridge the gap between the creative work in cybersecurity and contemporary art.

Something radical is happening right now with Artificial Intelligence. It appears that we may now be on the verge of an unprecedented paradigm shift in how we think about and employ computers. For decades, we’ve been writing programs in the form of line-by-line instructions. We are now beginning to move away from these limitations, instead teaching machines to learn on their own.

With the discovery of security vulnerabilities that affect millions of users, comes a great responsibility. How do you share this information that with the parties that it most affects and with the public?

All of the Wi-Fi devices you own are constantly broadcasting the name of every networks they’ve ever connected to. Turn them off. You know how your phone automagically connects to any Wi-Fi network its seen before? Ever wondered how that works? It’s blatantly stupid. Whenever your phone’s Wi-Fi is turned on, but not connected to a network, it openly broadcasts the SSIDs (network names) of all previously-associated networks in an attempt to connect to one of them.

What if websites borrowed compute resources from their visitor’s devices while they browsed as a means of distributed computing?

Attacking private networks from the Internet with DNS rebinding. TL;DR Following the wrong link could allow remote attackers to control your WiFi router, Google Home, Roku, Sonos speakers, home thermostats and more.

Music is storytelling. Melodies are memories. We create them from the musical experiences, conscious and unconscious, that we are exposed to throughout our lifetimes. Passed down through time in a kind of oral tradition, the music that we make today carries with it embeddings of the culture and people of times long past. Musical motifs are not the product of an individual artist, but rather a reinterpretation of the musical ideas that have been presented to them, for them to reinterpret and pass along to others. In this way, writing music can be thought of as less of a process of authorship and instead a practice of remix.

This is a brief walk-through tutorial that illustrates how to crack Wi-Fi networks that are secured using weak passwords. It is not exhaustive, but it should be enough information for you to test your own network's security or break into one nearby. The attack outlined is entirely passive (listening only, nothing is broadcast from your computer) and it is impossible to detect provided that you don't actually use the passwords that you crack.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are dependable, age-old, methods of bringing down remote computers and the services they provide. Attacks come in many shapes and sizes and have been seemingly more frequent and damaging recently. DDoS is effective because it leverages the bandwidth and throughput of thousands of computers, all under a single attacker’s control as a botnet, to target a machine or network. Sure, botnets can be purchased through forums and marketplaces on the darknet, but what if you wanted to DoS a server using only a single machine from the comfort of your own home.