A hands-on, community-powered look at payment system security — from ferrofluid and feature phones to CTF stats and future challenges.

2025 DEFCON 33 Schedule

We’re back at DEF CON with more talks, more hardware, more challenges, and a lot more ways to break things in the payment ecosystem. Here’s what to expect if you’re heading to the Village this year.

Over the past two editions, we looked at why cards are still dangerously easy to exploit — and why mobile wallets, while better, are far from bulletproof. But there’s a deeper issue underneath both.

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