🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have Zeshan Sattar presenting his talk 'Building the Future of Robot Security Testing: Expanding Pen Testing Skills for a Cyber Physical World'. Catch Zeshan's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have @zephrfish.yxz.red presenting his talk 'Archaic Creativity: Pulling At Infinite Threads'. Catch Andy's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have David-Constantin Dobritoiu presenting his talk 'Closing the Cloud Security Loop: Turning Theoretical Risk into Actionable Defense'. Catch David-Constantin's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have Georgia Weidman presenting her talk 'Shattering The Perimeter: Exploiting the Modern Mobile Ecosystem'. Catch Georgia's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Tom Harrison presenting his talk 'Standing On The Shoulders of Robots - AI for Attackers; Where the **** are we?'. Catch Tom's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Denis Legezo, Senior threat hunter at CyberProof, presenting his talk 'DIY CTI: You don't have to wait for vendors all the time to get fresh IoCs'. Catch Denis's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye out for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

No judgement, no gatekeeping, just collaborative problem solving and good vibes. 🛡️ New to security? Welcome. ⚔️ Deep in the industry? Bring your boss battles. 🎮 Curious about literally anything? Pull up a chair. Critical thinking > critical hits. #BSidesLeeds #AskMeAnything #GameOn

🎲 SIDE QUEST UNLOCKED: ASK ME ANYTHING 🎲 Got a cyber question? Career question? Random weird tech rabbit-hole question? Come find the AMA Desk at BSides Leeds and roll for answers. Our party might not know everything immediately (nobody does), but we’ll work together to figure it out.

Last nights rabbit hole. Using an LLM to reverse engineer an 80s BBC Micro text adventure into Z-Code, then devise a walk through, then build a test harness to play though both the original and the new version repeatedly, to test it all!

Labyrinth of LaCosche. A continuation of this github.com/GlennPegden2...

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have @seccomet.com, Senior Cyber Security Analyst at Capgemini, presenting his talk 'Adventures in Self-hosting'. Catch Jason's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're thrilled to have @qhazeeem.bsky.social presenting his talk 'Designing for Breach: Combining Ring-Fencing and Zero Trust'. Catch Kazeem's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have John Follin, Director at Holus Creative, presenting his talk 'Making Shor - Cybersecurity in a Quantum World'. Catch John's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Lisa Belmonte Diaz, Strategic Solutions Consultant at th4ts3cur1ty.company, presenting her talk 'Security Theatre For Your Board'. Catch Lisa's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're thrilled to have Chris Traynor, Owner/Instructor at Ridgeback Information Security, LLC, presenting his talk 'Cerno: One Tool to Triage, Orchestrate, and Track'. Catch Chris's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye out for the full schedule release!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have @daddythebaddie.bsky.social and @wildpark.bsky.social presenting 'Red Carding the Auditor: Winning the Game of Pragmatic Security'. Catch Leum and John's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Isaac Potts, Penetration Tester at KPMG UK, presenting his talk 'Turning CTF skills into Pentesting skills'. Catch Isaac's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have @vicharkness.bsky.social, Security Consultant, presenting her talk 'Baby Burp Suite'. Catch Vic's talk on the 101 Track, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have Dan Houghton, Penetration Tester at Pen Test Partners, presenting his talk 'Malware Slop: Bypassing Skill Issues with Vibe Coded Trojans'. Catch Dan's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

Hi, I am looking for a pentester for the startup I work for. Can @bsidesleeds.bsky.social help?

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Anicet Fopa Tchoffo, Security Consultant at University of Leeds, presenting his talk 'Security Hardening Isn’t the Hard Part'. Catch Anicet's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're delighted to have Charles Dickinson, Director at EY, presenting his talk 'OT Dungeons & Cyber Dragons'. Catch Charles's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're thrilled to have @insider.phd, Security Advocate at Semgrep, presenting her talk 'Creative Use of Game Mechanics, Game Hacking that isn't TECHNICALLY Hacking'. Catch Katie's talk on Track 1, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release!

🕹️ SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮️ We're excited to have Ehren Osborne, a Penetration Tester at KPMG, presenting their talk 'Please, oh please, stick to the RFCs'. Catch Ehren's talk on Track 2, and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full schedule release! #BSidesLeeds #SpeakerAnnouncement

Please welcome onboard Punk Security as the badge sponsor for BSides Leeds! 🎉 You won't find any spoilers here about the badge itself, but let's face it — you all know that if Punk Security is behind it, it's going to be amazing... 👀

Amazing start from Lindsay and a surprise last minute talk from Lianne

We are officially SOLD OUT! Thanks to everyone who's picked up a ticket for this year — we can't wait to see you! If you missed out on the ticket drops, snag yourself a spot on our waitlist in case of any returns over the next few weeks. bsidesleeds.com/tickets #BSidesLeeds #GameOn

Please welcome onboard @intigriti.com as an afterparty sponsor for BSides Leeds! 🎉 Bug bounty specialists Intigriti are all about helping develop communities of security researchers, so having them support our afterparty is a really natural fit.

We've been sifting through all the (incredible) submissions and have started accepting applicants. This process is time consuming so if you haven't received an email yet, don't panic. This *does not* mean your submission is rejected. Once we're done we'll pop an update here and via email.

We asked 100 people: “What’s at 00:01 on 10 May?” You said… BSides Leeds ticket drop! 🔔 TOP ANSWER! No conferring, no passing—be quick on the buzzer! First come, first served before it’s “UH-UH!” (sold out). Be ready. 10 May, 00:01. bsidesleeds.com/tickets #TicketDrop

After being tagged numerous times in posts about a feminist hacker collective making clay PCBs, I had a sudden realization two nights ago that I might be able to make conductive, solderable pottery glaze, so I tried it. It worked. Today. I made some prototype ceramic PCBs with a 3D printed stamp

Since we have limited crew spaces and can't guarantee acceptance, we'll be closing the form on Thursday evening (7th) so that we can let you know before the final ticket drop. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #CallForVolunteers #BSidesLeeds

📢 Calling all chaos co-ordinators and responsible adults! 📢 Our Call for Volunteers is now OPEN! You don't need to have crew experience — the main thing we need is that you're approachable, friendly, enthusiastic, and want to help others get the best out of their day.

Really looking forward to this one - I've been nagging Lindsay to do this talk at BSides for ages (no hard feelings she chose dc151 over BSides though 😉) Wed 13th May.

So, side project #2 is GTA Madchester. Something that first entered my head around 2003 when Vice City came out. 80s Miami was cool, but 1989 Manchester was cooler than anywhere else in the planet. Despite a brief spell in the games industry, I wasn’t placed to build it, but I kept notes …..

💼 ALL TICKETS IN THIS ROUND… ARE SOLD OUT. The vault is empty, the board is clear, and the game is over for this round. If you’ve got a ticket then you’re in the game. If you don’t… I’m afraid the banker is smiling. Join us for the next round: 📅 10th May at 00:01 #BSidesLeeds #InfosecCommunity

Just 9 tickets left in this drop and only one smaller final drop to go...

🕹️ We're gearing up for the next round of TICKET DROP 🎮️ Check back at 19:00 today to grab your place 👀 bsidesleeds.com/tickets

Today, after a long battle with cancer, we lost @fvt.bsky.social His wife asked that we share the news of his passing, "His love for the community that he was in (as a curmudgeon 🤣). His joy for being involved with every thing that he & any team that he worked with. He fought to the very end."

If we don't manage to fit you into our programme this year, please do consider submitting to other conferences because we would genuinely love to see your talks get the platform they deserve!

Thank you for an absolutely *phenomenal* response to our CFP - we're honoured to have received a mammoth 82 submissions. We're currently finalising our scoring and are aiming to update all submitters by the end of this week.

I signed up for @zephrfish.yxz.red Malwareless Adversarial Emulation course - can definitely recommend if you're looking for training that's actually useful and effective

We’ve spoken before about things like speaker diversity, our code of conduct, social interaction indicators, and having quiet and prayer rooms. But something we’ve quietly done from the start is set aside free, discounted, and reserved tickets for groups that are under-represented in cyber.

That was a quick round..! 🎮️ Our first ticket drop has sold out, but fear not — we have two more coming up. Mark your calendars: 📅 27th April at 19:00 📅 10th May at 00:01 (hopefully making grabbing a ticket a little easier for the shift workers among us!) #TicketDrop #BSidesLeeds #GameOn

🎬📼 IT’S TIME TO PLAY… TICKET DROP! 📼🎬 🟦 B for BSides Leeds 🟨 S for Securing your ticket 🟥 L for Let’s go! Think fast—tickets go quick. Don’t get blocked! 🏆 📅 Sat 13 June 📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds bsidesleeds.com/tickets #BSidesLeeds #TicketDrop #InfosecCommunity #GameOn

👏👏👏 for Shaun and Anicet who spoke this month. - We're always looking for new speakers, please reach out to @laurawhit.bsky.social, @roachy.net or @glenn.pegden.com for a slot in an upcoming month

🪙 Insert Coin. Pull the Lever 🎰 BSides Leeds is about to be Game On. Cybersecurity meets play, puzzles & competition - because learning shouldn’t be boring. Test your skills. Learn new ones. Join the community. 📍 13 June – Leeds 🎟 Ticket drop: 10 April at 13:37 #BSidesLeeds #Infosec #GameOn

🎪 Call for Villages! 🛠️ Got a hands-on idea? Run a village, workshop, or demo space to teach, build, break & inspire. From security labs to weird & wonderful creations, we want it all. Apply now & bring your village to life! docs.google.com/forms/d/1Wjn... #BSidesLeeds #Infosec #CyberSecurity

Oh shit. Is it that time already? Bugger. We'd better get a social media post out....... Sorry for the late announcement this month folks. We've got a couple of great speakers though! Details in the link: dc151.org/april-2026-m...

🎮 LAST CALL, PLAYERS 🎮 The clock is ticking… The BSides Leeds CFP closes TODAY! This is your chance to press START on your talk, share your knowledge, and level up the community. Whether you're a first-time speaker or a seasoned pro, we want to hear your ideas!