Series
U.S. Cyber Command and Army Cyber hacker-conference lineage, represented here by source-backed AvengerCon VIII and IX electronic badge records from official event, badge, and Army Cyber public-affairs sources.
U.S. Cyber Command and Army Cyber hacker-conference lineage, represented here by source-backed AvengerCon VIII and IX electronic badge records from official event, badge, and Army Cyber public-affairs sources.
Badges
First AvengerCon electronic scavenger-hunt badge
The AvengerCon VIII 8-8-8 badge was the conference's first electronic badge, documented by U.S. Army public-affairs coverage as a scavenger-hunt badge where attendees collected codes to light LEDs or hacked the badge to bypass the contest.
Four-challenge serial CTF badge
The AvengerCon IX electronic badge carried a built-in four-challenge CTF, coin-cell blink behavior, BAT CON battery jumper, micro-USB connection, CP2102 USB-to-UART serial path, and post-event unlock codes published by the official badge page.