Security News > 2020 > January > Coronavirus claims new victim: 'DEF CON cancelled' joke cancelled after DEF CON China actually cancelled

The cancellation - or postponement, depending on how optimistic you want to be - was announced by the DEF CON team on Monday, a little more than ten weeks before the confab was scheduled to take place in Beijing.

"China has announced a six-month hold on events like ours as part of the effort to combat the coronavirus outbreak," the DEF CON team said.

Further adding to the confusion was that one of the traditions of every DEF CON event is netizens spreading fake "DEF CON is cancelled" rumors.

Well, this time it's real, though DEF CON China only.

While most cases of infection remain confined to the Hubei region of China, cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in other parts of the world, including five in the US, with other infections in Australia and Europe.

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