#appsecvillage — Public Fediverse posts
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Hear Ye! We have our winners!!
ICYMI, AppSec Village's Fix the Flag Wargame at DEF CON 34, in partnership with Secdim, is officially over - congrats to all!A huge shoutout to all the players who joined us🔥.
Here are your champions:
🎮 Top Player – Winner: becojo
🕶 Top Player – Runner-Up: matdabomb9🎮 Best Level – Winner: becojo
🐬 Best Level – Runner-Up: Javan RasokatAll prizes proudly sponsored by Xbow!
#defcon34 #appsecvillage #ctf #cybersecurity #wargames #infosec #fixthaflag
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How do you narrow 26,000 firmware alerts down to the 47 that actually represent product exposure? By moving from population-level data to product-specific evidence. 📊
Read this technical guide by Finite State to learn how to build a defensible remediation pipeline using binary-derived SBOMs and exploit intelligence.
Exactly the kind of practitioner-first thinking AppSec Village likes to spotlight.
Read more: https://finitestate.io/resources/how-to-prioritize-firmware-vulnerabilities-cra-compliance
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It really does take a village. 💙
A huge thank you to our AppSec Village leadership, staff and volunteers for bringing the Village to life at #DEFCON34.
From months of planning to solving last-minute problems, welcoming attendees and keeping everything moving behind the scenes - you made it happen.
Special shoutout to our Volunteer Wrangler, Sharlene Toney, and every volunteer who gave their time and energy to the community.
We couldn’t do this without you. 🫶
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What are you getting hands-on with at AppSec Village at DEF CON 34 ? 👀
Test and defend AI-powered applications, explore container escapes, build Burp extensions and Bambdas, secure the software supply chain, strengthen code-to-cloud security, or try AI-enhanced threat modeling.
Choose your workshop and reserve your spot:
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Your DEF CON threat model forgot to account for sleepiness 💀.
Fortunately, XBOW is bringing Hacker Fuel to AppSec Village @ DEF CON 34: free gourmet coffee to help you fight the post-lunch slump and make it through one more talk, workshop or hallway conversation.
Just come by and fuel up. ☕⚡
📍 Booth #604 · Level 1 · West Hall 2
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If you're hitting #AppSecVillage at #DEFCON34 this weekend, take a minute and check out my Arsenal session on Proactive Malicious Package Defense.
I'm releasing a free and #opensource tool that can use public intel sources, or commercial ones if you want. Fully pluggable! And has features that make it useful from desktop to enterprise-scale CI, and ships as a static binary
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No more hovering over the schedule 👀
Workshop registration for AppSec Village @ DEF CON 34 is officially open.
Pick your workshop, reserve your spot, and get ready to go to Vegas!
Register here: https://www.appsecvillage.com/events/dc-2026
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Escape's research team scanned 5,600 vibe-coded apps (Lovable, Bolt.new, Base44, Create.xyz). 60% were vulnerable.
400+ exposed secrets. 175 PII instances — bank data, medical records. 98 critical vulns. One CVE still live months after disclosure.
Full methodology + what security teams should do in week one:
Catch Escape at AppSec Village, DEF CON 34.
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The @defcon 34 AppSec Village schedule is live 🔥
Three days of talks, workshops, PODs, Arsenal and Fix the Flag.
Here are a few sessions to put on your list 🧵
📍 Booth #604 · Level 1 · West Hall 2
📅 Aug 7–9Full schedule:
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Counting down to @defcon 34!
Four of our Silver sponsors powering the village - four fronts of the same fight: keeping software secure now that code and attacks move at AI speed.
Escape Tech· Finite State· OLIGO · Symbiotic Security
#AppSecVillage #DEFCON34 #sponsors
Meet them:
Escape → https://escape.tech/?utm_source=sponsorship&utm_medium=events&utm_campaign=appsec-village
Finite State → https://finitestate.io/
Oligo → https://www.oligo.security/
Symbiotic Security → https://www.symbioticsec.ai/?utm_source=appsec&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=event_2026 -
You voted. The people have spoken. 🗣️ Swipe to see how it landed 👉
For the 1st time ever, we're setting up a physical shop at @defcon 34!! Come try the gear on and say hi.
📍 Booth #604 · Level 1, West Hall 2
🗓️ DEF CON 34 · August 7–9
💳 We're cashless - come preparedCan't make it to Vegas? The full lineup ships worldwide!
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The Village runs on the people who show up for it.
A thank-you to four Bronze sponsors powering AppSec Village at @defcon 34 -
AISLE → https://aisle.com/
Apiiro → https://apiiro.com/
Char49 → https://www.char49.com/
OX Security → https://www.ox.security/?utm_source=defcon&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=defcon_2026&utm_content=logo_linkFour corners of AppSec, same instinct: find what's broken first.
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5 weeks out. We've been in this exact pose since @defcon 33 ended!!
This year: Fix the Flag Wargame, a first-ever AppSec Village shop, and a schedule that's about to drop.
Keep an eye out for it at https://buff.ly/VfpJBvR 👀
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My workshop just got accepted to the #AppSecVillage for Def Con this summer. WOOHOO
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It takes a village to run a village! AppSec Village at @defcon 34 needs volunteers to help bring it to life.
If you care about AppSec and want to be part of making the village happen, we want you in.
Sign up: appsecvillage.com/volunteer
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Shoutout to our Gold Sponsor CyBeats 💀. Grateful to have them in the Village this year. https://www.cybeats.com/
#AppSecVillage #AppSec #SBOM #SupplyChainSecurity #GoldSponsor #Shoutout
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Well cool, I get to do the #AppSecVillage Arsenal this year. Hopefully people will like the project I’m building to help devs and defenders with the while malicious packages issue.
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Shoutout to Aikido, a Gold Sponsor of AppSec Village 💀
Every scanner you need - SAST, SCA, secrets, cloud, container - in one platform, minus the alert overload. First results in minutes; autofix PRs to close them out.
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Welcome to AppSec Village, AISLE™, one of our newest Bronze Sponsors!💀
227 CVEs assigned, 90 high or critical, 56 projects secured, all autonomously discovered and responsibly disclosed to maintainers.
AISLE finds what others miss, and ships verified fixes, cutting remediation from months to days.
Check them out ⬇️
https://aisle.com/#AppSecVillage #AppSec #VulnerabilityManagement #Sponsors #Thankyou #Shoutouts
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🫵 BUILDERS, WE WANT YOU! Submit a level for our SecDim "Fix the Flag" competition at AppSec Village @defcon 34 💀
Build a vulnerable app, define the fix, and defenders worldwide play it - top contributors win prizes from XBOW.
Submit by July 31 💙
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One week to go! You snoozed three times. AppSkeletor kept count👀.
AppSec Village Call for Proposals at DEF CON 34 closes May 31.
Talks, panels, workshops, Arsenal demos. Blind review, first-timers welcome.
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Most security tools tell you what happened. Oligo tells you what's happening — right now, at runtime.
Silver Sponsor of AppSec Village 2026, and a welcome addition to the village 💀💙
Check them out ⬇️
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Grateful to have XBOW as Platinum Sponsor of AppSec Village 💀@!
A community of security practitioners doing what they love — and doing it well.
https://xbow.com?source=appsecvillage #AppSecVillage -
Chainguard builds secure-by-default open source — hardened containers, language libraries, and VM images that engineering teams (and their agents) can trust.
Gold Sponsor at AppSec Village this year — glad to have them in the village.
#AppSecVillage #AppSec #CyberSecurity #SupplyChain #SponsorShoutout
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If software supply chain is part of your day, Cybeats is worth knowing. Gold Sponsor at AppSec Village this year — thanks for the support!
Learn more about them here: https://www.cybeats.com/
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#TBT to DEF CON 28 🎥
In 2020, Mario Aresta’s talk “Threat Modeling the Death Star” premiered on our YouTube channel.
Talks like this are why we work hard to keep AppSec Village content free and recorded for the community. But recording, editing, and captioning all cost money.
If you’ve learned from our talks over the years, please consider supporting future recordings:
Link to donate: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/appsec-village-def-con-33-recordings
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Black Friday continues at AppSec Village!
You’ve still got time to grab your favourites before it all wraps up on 30 November.
🔥 Deals running right now:
30% off all gear — code: BlackFriday
Free worldwide shipping on orders $100+ — code: BlackFridayShip
(Yep, the codes stack.)If you’ve been meaning to level up your tee collection… this is your window.
🛒 Shop the sale → https://buff.ly/o6TL97T
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Black Friday has officially landed at the Village. 🖤💀
From TODAY, 26–30 November, enjoy:
✨ 30% off all gear - code: BlackFriday
📦 Free worldwide shipping over $100 - code: BlackFridayShip
(Yes, the codes stack!!)If you’ve been eyeing a hoodie, tee, or anything AppSkeletor inspired, now’s the time.
Shop the sale → https://shop.appsecvillage.com/collections/all -
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What's your most funniest #CybersecurityAwareness story?!In honor of #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth we're offering 15% off your entire order with code NCSAM15 (min. $30).
Because your good security habits deserve it!!
Valid until Nov 1.
Shop here: https://buff.ly/L9VgUXq
#AppSecVillage #CyberSecurity #PhishingAwareness #SecureByDesign
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We couldn’t help ourselves 😅 Once again we fired up Midjourney to imagine what it would look like if our Village Shop store had its own storefront… in Paris of all places!
Village vibe or too fancy for us? 👀
🛒 Shop the Village Today! Every purchase goes straight back into the AppSec Village community.
🔗 Link:
https://shop.appsecvillage.com/#gear #apparel #fashion #shopourstore #appsecvillage #defcon