I'm excited to announce I'll be taking the stage at @bsidesmelbourne.bsky.social 16-17 May 2026 at SEEK HQ in Cremorne. I'll be presenting Panning for Gold: A Hacker's Guide to Next Generation Firewalls on how attackers can exploit FW features and weaknesses to increase the impact of a compromise.

Woohoo! 700, we're filling up! Stoked, can't wait to see you Saturday next week. If you're keen to join us 21st March, get in now and grab your tickets here: events.humanitix.com/crikeycon-11

It's Monday morning, but you have the best news: CrikeyCon is at the end of the tunnel. What a way to start the week. Droppy wanted to start the week off strong too, so another massive 'high paw' for stepping up to be a sponsor of our hacker show to @volkis.au! See you at the con!

Thursday 19th March 2026, you're drinking and eating some nibbles. You're chatting to a friend. If that's future you, you signed up to Women of CrikeyCon. It's for attendees, friends, and wider community get to meet before CrikeyCon. Sign up: events.humanitix.com/women-of-cri...

You've heard about some of our speakers, and we're stoked to announce another: Simeon Miteff joins us with "Phoning it in: active scam campaign tracking with a small-scale SMS honeypot". Join the journey through hobby honeypot to a "telecom telescope".

What do you do when you find yourself the new owner of Kubernetes config during a pentest? Find out the answer, and more with Finn Foulds-Cook during his talk on Saturday - "Help I got a k8s config?"

Hey hey Women of CrikeyCon! Get your tickets for the networking event here: events.humanitix.com/women-of-cri...

Come join Alex Tilley on stage as we're brought through lived experiences in "Real world management in the world of Bad Days". We're stoked to hear this one as no one wants to deal with, but everyone should be prepped to get through, a massively bad day.

First up on 21st March we have @ellearmageddon.bsky.social taking the stage. Elle's joining us with their talk "nothing we do matters (so it can’t hurt to try!)". Join us to see them at the RNA showgrounds, and get some much needed hope in these times!

Our schedule is up, and we're excited to announce our speaker @snyff.pentesterlab.com is joining us on stage with I DON'T LIKE THIS CODE!!! Get ready to walk through a series of real-world inspired code snippets with one minute to figure it out. Only question, will there be jeopardy music?

Thanks Crikey crew! It’s a great bunch of speaker you’ve got lined up this year. Can’t wait to see the! 😍

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!

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...

If you missed my talk at BSides Canberra you can catch up on it now on YouTube

Get along to CrikeyCon XI - 21st March 2026. The best hacker conference that side of the border! 😜 🎟️ Tickets on sale now at CrikeyCon.com

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.

Thanks again to @bsidescbr.bsky.social for inviting me to present my research on living off the land on Palo Alto Networks firewalls as well as sharing new tools I’ve developed to creatively misuse 😜 firewall features for credential harvesting and port scanning. Some great questions too!

Just one week to go until I present the research from my “Panning for Gold: A Hacker’s Guide to Next Generation Firewalls” paper. Come along and listen to it at @bsidescbr.bsky.social if you’d like to up your post-exploitation game or learn how to better defend your environment.

I’m incredibly excited to be accepted by @bsidescbr.bsky.social to present my research on Next Gen Firewalls. I can’t wait to get up there for the first time to share it with you all!

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.

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

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

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'!

Jumping on stage we have Simbo who will be talking all things SIEM in the talk "SIEM-less security; Panacea or placebo". Join us March 22 to see this talk and more at CrikeyCon. Get your ticket here: events.humanitix.com/crikeycon-x

Come learn with Kelsy how to develop your cyber team as trustworthy within an org, rather than a compliance function, and how increasing levels of perceived legitimacy may allow security teams to further leverage employees as practical and informed resources!

Hey cyber people, Cybliminal have a ticket to @crikeycon.bsky.social X on 22nd March in Brisbane to giveaway. DM us if you are keen to attend.

The Wright Brothers first flight was in 1903. Join @sarahyo.com on stage to learn how the industry kicked off over a century ago has fascinating lessons for cyber professionals today in the talk "Nerds on a plane" ✈️#crikeycon

Colby joins us on stage to talk Cyber security exercises D&D style. Get emersed through his talk on building scenarios and narrative, supporting player agency, and keeping things flowing in Tabletops & Dragons. #crikeycon

Aww yeah! @crikeycon.bsky.social schedule is up!! crikeycon.com/schedule/

Next up we have Zane on stage to dive into the anatomy of credential attacks, exploring how attackers exploit stolen credentials, bypass defences, and leverage automation to maximize their success. Does MFA work, how well, and what else can you do in 'Credential Stuffing Unmasked'?

This year NTT is supporting our Women of CrikeyCon event on 20th March. Women of CrikeyCon provide a chance for attendees identifying as women, friends, and the wider community to meet before CrikeyCon to promote diversity and inclusion. Register here: events.humanitix.com/crikeycon-x-...

If you would like to join us, there are still tickets remaining. Come join us next Saturday, pick up your ticket here: events.humanitix.com/crikeycon-x

We cracked over 700 tickets, thank you so much for all your support! Many hugs from us, we'll see you next Saturday 🥰🐨

Exciting times! We have now published the events and presentation schedule for CrikeyCon X next week! crikeycon crikeycon.com/schedule/ Workshops will be running on the day too - we'll send out details and registration forms to ticket holders soon...

The Decipher Bureau crew are back both as Silver sponsors and running our CrikeyConnect. With massive experience recruiting for the cyber security industry, come grab a refreshment and get some tips on what’s happening in the job market.

Brand new at CrikeyCon X, Australia’s first-ever Meshtastic CTF event! Explore off-grid comms with our open-source, decentralised system using LoRa! Come with your LoRa kit (e.g. Heltec V3) and challenge our LoRa Mesh on March 22! [We've got a few to borrow.]

Fantastic news, we've just cracked 400 tickets! We're a week away from announcing our talks and events, but one thing we can talk about is our new Meshtastic CTF extension. We have two friends switching on a cracking set of challenges, come join us to net some solid points!

Excited to support @crikeycon.bsky.social as a 2025 Silver sponsor! Cybliminal is all about supporting hackers, builders, breakers, and defenders in the community. We can’t wait to see what is in store for next year + celebrate everything that makes this community amazing. C u there! #CrikeyCon2025

Droppy and the Sleuth are open for 2024! Come join us: events.humanitix.com/crikeycon-x

We hitting full throttle on our CFP already! Do you have something to share at CrikeyConX? Join us at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...