Shout out to Volkis joining us again this year as Silver Sponsors. The team have supported us year on year, huge hugs for the ongoing love! Come see them 21 March at the RNA Showground.

Wow! We've been running through the awesome submissions to the CFP and CFE for #CrikeyCon this year over the last week... it should be quite the show! And huge dropbear hugs to all those who have offered their ideas and talks! Get your tix and more information at www.crikeycon.com!

We’re excited to welcome back The Decipher Bureau at CrikeyCon and their Crikey Connect joined by Cyber Security Champions of Tomorrow! Massive thanks for continuing to back the cyber community! Catch the teams on 21 March for a stack of practical, hands-on career activities.

CFP and CFE has officially closed. We had a huge turnout, thank you so much for your time and effort to submit your ideas. Droppy & the Sleuth are busily reviewing and looking to get a response to everyone that submitted latest by the 21st. Reach out if you have any questions! Droppy & the Sleuth

Sunday when CFP and CFE closes, get your ideas in now! CFP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... CFE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thank you to OzHack and Payatu for joining us in 2026 as supporters! Look out for them at the conference with a huge table of all their hardware goodies!

25% of the tickets gone! Don't miss out: events.humanitix.com/crikeycon-11... We're excited to be announcing CFP and CFE results soon, so get your ideas in!

The team at Division 5 have been long time sponsors, and so we're super grateful to have them back again as Silver sponsors in 2026! Check them out here or online at: division5.io Thank you so much! See you in March!

Happy New Year! CrikeyCon 11 is three months away. Come join us in Brisbane on 21st of March for informal, welcoming, real knowledge sharing — from hard-won lessons, to clever demos and challenges, or testing fresh ideas. Grab your ticket: events.humanitix.com/crikeycon-11

Huge thanks to @infosectcbr.bsky.social who have returned as Gold Sponsors! Their contribution to the communities around us make us so proud to get their support and sponsorship. Many hugs, Droppy & The Sleuth

Frequently we get the question, when will we find out about the CFP / CFE? We provide at least a month, focusing on travelers first. Got a training or event idea, share it with us: forms.gle/S3UvE9XjzEDW... Been holding on to a talk for a very interested crowd: forms.gle/LpzsBoufXpuv...

Droppy welcomes our second #CrikeyCon Silver sponsor! Welcome back @Devicie, and a massive thanks for the continued support. Check out Devicie's goodies at www.devicie.com

Solving "Can you hear the wavelength?" Spotify codes = wave (Img1) 23 bars with 0(1 & 23) and 7 (12): 1. shorturl.at/3auyr Convert to base 10 (A=1, etc) to base 10: 52 12 64 20 25 41 32 61 71 43 Add in 070: 0 5 2 1 2 6 4 2 0 2 5 7 4 1 3 2 6 1 7 1 4 3 0 Copy Paste, scan, enjoy, submit (Img2,3,4)

Congrats Fraser for cracking the puzzle! We'll be sending a free ticket your way shortly. Look out for a write up next week.

Over 100 tickets 🥳🎉🎊! Can't wait to see you all in March, the Sleuth are cracking on with our weekly planning. We've got more hands this year taking on the con and exciting new ideas!

Do you have a training you'd like to run at CrikeyCon 11, or another idea? We'd love to hear from you here: forms.gle/e8MMepNmdMUD... Thank you so much to those who've already submitted their presentations!We've been reviewing and the submissions are looking great!!

Final clue before we release the answer: Have you tried asking Peter Boone and his friends on Stack Overflow?

Big shout out to @cybliminal.com our first silver sponsor this year! Massive hugs for the returning support; can't wait to see you out at the showgrounds.

No solves yet, clue 3: 1221 in base C(3) = 52 in base 10

Clue 2: Is all this base troubling you, keep calm and count letters.

You legends, 50 tickets already! We appreciate the confidence. Updates: CFP has some great submissions already. Droppy last night talked returning events. Website refresh coming soon, thanks again to Nomad! CTF organised and run by our one and only Klaxon again, great to have you back onboard!

Wanted to share this amazing reel from our artist! www.instagram.com/reel/DQ1EPEv... Thanks sirong.wip!

Tickets are up and on sale! Grab yours at: events.humanitix.com/crikeycon-11

Some already fantastic submissions to the CFP, if you'd like to be up on stage at Crikeycon 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/10Sk...

Free ticket puzzle: Can you hear the waves? 1221,C,71,19,100,1G,1012,41,51,3A C,R,I,K,E,Y,C,O,N,11

Not interested in watching horses run around a track? Well how about a good 30-60 min cyber talk, check out our 2025 playlist from CrikeyCon X: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Free ticket comp: Spooky — this doesn't look like hardware: Evilnum Fox Kitten + Axiom Dark Caracal WIRTE Rocke Blue Mockingbird + Cleaver FIN5 Cobalt Group Mofang Orangeworm Solve for v=?0 Additional hint from this week: Mitre 10 is a hardware store, any other Mitres come to mind?

Dropbears, have you got a cool event idea for a hacker con? Every year we hope to use more space (and RNA has lots of it), to share ideas and techniques. If you're interested jump in below: forms.gle/JRmCM7q8uPq3...

Dropbears, have you got a cool event idea for a hacker con? Every year we hope to use more space (and RNA has lots of it), to share ideas and techniques. If you're interested jump in below: forms.gle/JRmCM7q8uPq3...

Dropbears! CFP just dropped; come on stage and share at CrikeyCon 11 (Closes 1 Feb - notification latest 21 Feb): docs.google.com/forms/d/10Sk...

Droppy and the Sleuth are having a well earned rest. Thank you again to all of you who joined us, sponsored us, and volunteered to make our 10th birthday such a success. Many hugs, and we'll reach out soon!

We are live! (and were, I just couldn't log in to bsky) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC1j...

Find that which is hidden in plain sight. Bletchley will guide you once you’ve made the discovery. While at the park rest under the Ana tree to think about the final solution. Good luck on your adventure may Droppy protect you.

We are live! (and were, I just couldn't log in to bsky) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC1j...

Don't throw out the I, we need it for next year!

We're 1 day away from our 10th birthday; a big shout out to our Platinum sponsor the Queensland Government (through cdsb.qld.gov.au)! Droppy and the Sleuth are overwhelmed by the support this year, and we can't wait for many more years of success together! #CrikeyCon

Droppy's stoked that CrikeyConnect are helping our attendees with a Free Professional Digital Portrait! 📸 Looking to update your digital profile? Visit CrikeyConnect's area between 10-3 for a free professional portrait by a skilled photographer. Don't miss out!

Ooooh! Last minute ticket frenzy this week, will we break last years total of 966, or even that elusive 1000 tickets? Get 'em while they're hot! events.humanitix.com/crikeycon-x

Thanks again to @volkis.au for Silver sponsorship this year and all the noise they're making online! Looking forward to seeing all of you out there at #CrikeyCon, and thanks for the continuing support!

Droppy throws a big 'high paw' out to Sekuro supporting us again as gold sponsors! Can't thank them enough for the ongoing support they've shown us #crikeycon

Another big thank you to InfoSectcbr.com.au for their Gold Sponsorship of #CrikeyCon. They provided us heaps of different support in the past, and so we're thrilled that they've decided to sponsor us as well!

We wanted to send our thanks again to www.flametreecyber.com.au for supporting us and all this great content as Silver sponsors this year! Big thanks from all of us, Droppy and the Sleuth.

Droppy loves #CrikeyCon's long-standing sponsors, give it up again for division5.io our Silver Sponsor!

Should also mention, our workshops are up if you haven't seen it through your email. Sign up and come along!

Droppy and the Sleuth would like to thank again the gang @devicie.bsky.social who have been multi year supporters as Gold Sponsors! You are all legends, much love!

The crew at Decipher Bureau have been long term supporters and run the fantastic CrikeyConnect. It is our great pleasure to thank them again for their support this year and running such a fantastic initiative. Many hugs, see you this Saturday!

We're a week away and we wanted to say another big thank you to our sponsors. This year Cybliminal has joined us as a Silver sponsor! Big thanks to Cybliminal #crikeycon

Justin's talk title speaks for itself: “Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions” - the time I got in the middle of 100,000 Linux machines and their LVFS firmware updates and then somehow bypassed the fwupd PGP signature checking

Open source sits at the base of the software supply chain. Fraser talks about how critical it is for open source to establish security response teams and infrastructure. Listen to the experiences learned from bootstrapping and leading the Haskell security response team.

We're excited to announce we have Georgia back on stage with us to present 'Hacking Minds not machines: How meetings not malware can compromise your controls'!