Isaac Brekken/AP Thousands of hackers, cybersecurity experts, federal agents, and others will descend upon Las Vegasnext week for what are always interestingconferences ― with talks on everything from hacking cars to airline boarding passes.
Two of the largest conferences in the hacking world will be happening ― Black Hat USA and DEF CON ― along with a DARPA competition between autonomous computers right in the middle of both.
And more than 20,000 people are likely going to be there.
But what should you expectwhile you're there? Should a new attendee be worried about getting hacked? What talks are a must?
These questions and morewereasked of somepast attendees. Here's what they told us.