Huge thanks to Signal Labs for supporting BSides Canberra 2026 as a Gold sponsor. Their support helps make this volunteer-led event possible and keeps it accessible to the community. bsidescbr.com.au/pages/sponso...

CSides this Friday 👇 8 May, 6pm, Canberra Rex Hotel (Room 6) Zac is presenting: Lifetime issues in unsafe Rust When unsafe breaks Rust’s guarantees… dangling pointers, UAFs, and how to avoid them. After: Swan & King Bar (Level 5) Details: bsidescbr.com.au/pages/csides...

First time speaking? BSides Canberra welcomes first-time speakers and new voices. If you built something interesting or learned something while breaking a system, consider submitting a talk. CFP open until 30 June. cfp.bsidescbr.com.au/bsides-canbe...

Standing room only tonight during Jocelinn K’s talk on Submarine Cables & Cyberz at CSides

CSides is on this Friday! 10 April, 6pm Canberra Rex (Room 6) Drinks after at Swan & King Submarine Cables & Cyberz presented by Jocelinn Kang - What really keeps Australia connected (and what could take it down). No tickets, no fees. Just show up. More details: bsidescbr.com.au/pages/csides...

BSides Canberra 2026 CFP is now open. - Main Track - Off-Main Track - Careers Village - Events Submissions close 30 June. Submit here: cfp.bsidescbr.com.au/bsides-canbe...

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Angus is now live: “Walkthrough of an N-day Android GPU driver vulnerability.” Watch here: youtu.be/G71dB0C4-dY

Great talk by Ben & Sam at CSides tonight

CSides Canberra this Friday, 6pm at Canberra Rex. Talk: Sebucsert - ASD’s Unsolved CTF Challenge by Sam Leong & Ben Pye. Drinks after at Swan & King. Details: bsidescbr.com.au/pages/csides...

Planning ahead for 2026? Tickets are already available for BSides Canberra IX, returning 24–26 September. Same community, new signal, more to come. events.humanitix.com/bsides-canbe...

Huge turnout tonight at CSides. Great talks by Frank den Hartog and Remy Coll

CSides Monthly Security Meetup is on this Friday, 13 Feb. We’ve got two talks: • Physical-Layer Security - Frank den Hartog • Hacker culture - Remy Coll Always a relaxed evening of technical discussion and community. Details and venue info: bsidescbr.com.au/pages/csides...

We’re now welcoming sponsors for BSides Canberra IX (24–26 September 2026). BSides Canberra is a non-profit, volunteer-run conference supported entirely by the community. Email us for a copy of the sponsorship pack. Contact details are available here: bsidescbr.com.au/pages/sponso...

For anyone new here: BSidesCbr is a non-profit, volunteer-run conference. No one is paid from conference funds. Ticket sales go directly into running the event, and we publish transparent finances at the conference closing each year. The community makes this possible.

The grid is live. Tickets for BSides Canberra IX are now on sale. We’re back 24–26 September 2026 with three days of community-driven security talks, research, and conversation. Tickets: events.humanitix.com/bsides-canbe... bsidescbr.com.au

New BSides Canberra IX look unlocked. Blue tones, laser lines, and energy straight out of the grid. Website updated, more to come.

CSides is back for 2026 - did you miss us? This Friday, 9 Jan, at the Canberra Rex Hotel. Talk: Grub bootloader bugs & secure boot bypasses with @silviocesare.bsky.social Room 6, then Swan & King for pizza. No tickets, no fees – just turn up. bsidescbr.com.au/csides.html

New BSides Canberra 2025 keynote by @shubs.io is now live: “Not All Vulnerabilities Are The Same.” Watch here: youtu.be/FRMni2WEUM4

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Adam Kues & Dylan Pindur is now live: “Finding Critical Bugs in Adobe Experience Manager.” Watch here: youtu.be/3IRdkNv4E0c

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Dave Matthews is now live: “Decoding Threat Actors: a Free Tool for Mapping Aliases and Taming the Name Game.” Watch here: youtu.be/W_mOrd8IjFQ

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Joshua Padman is now live: “Where Did I Put My Keys? Preventing Data Leaks at Scale with Automation.” Watch here: youtu.be/8Xi6f_GMvqY

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Ben Williamson is now live: “Why Rust is Safe.” Watch here: youtu.be/aLviWMC_U3A

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by “Alex” @mangopdf.bsky.social is now live: “let’s make malware but it might get caught so the malware gets worse.” Watch here: youtu.be/YqSDB7wuTsU

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Edward Farrell is now live: “n00bing my way through circuit board design.” Watch here: youtu.be/ijJE-HGizx8

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Liam Wilkinson is now live: “DarkEngine: Conducting Research into a Highly Orchestrated Phishing Campaign.” Watch here: youtu.be/_VFpddDx8ow

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by David Leadbeater is now live: “Developers, the weakest link in the supply chain?” Watch here: youtu.be/HPQwXX7JOuc

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Anurag Khanna is now live: “Modern Identity Providers Under Attack: Tactics, Techniques, Detections and Mitigations.” Watch here: youtu.be/FA5jkFNnXU0

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by ByungHyun Kang is now live: “Breaking COMposure: Journey to Hunting Windows COM Vulnerabilities.” Watch here: youtu.be/TBMyjoTDf-0

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Jayden Caelli is now live: “Kerberoasting in C#: An OPSEC Perspective.” Watch here: youtu.be/owzWkM0yI6o

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Luke Marshall is now live: “Why I am (still) finding secrets in your code.” Watch here: youtu.be/FVoQ3MkRFBI

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Giuliana De Bellis & Jamal Hopwood is now live: “Reversing Bytecode into Bounties: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Jira and Confluence Plugins.” Watch here: youtu.be/wgCv-ZtOYaA

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Justin Soyke is now live: “My First Phish: The SAIGA Saga.” Watch here: youtu.be/yt9UFPzaikI

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Luke Wurst is now live: “The Hero’s Skip and the Hacker’s Leap: Exploring Null References from Hyrule to the Enterprise.” Watch here: youtu.be/jf2J3nn7vJI

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Theresa Sobb is now live: “MISSION ASSURANCE: Applications Beyond the Military Context.” Watch here: youtu.be/EoS-8-5xXXY

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Riley Kidd is now live: “Time Traveling Exploitation: Remote Code Execution in a 10,000 Day Old Game Protocol.” Watch here: youtu.be/7dXaGKF-73Y

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Marcio Almeida & Justin Steven is now live: “Sleepless Strings — Template Injection in Insomnia.” Watch here: youtu.be/7bMTu3yCZVc

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by @justinsteven.com is now live: “‘Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions’.” Watch here: youtu.be/boT88qkWFTY

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Matt Belvedere is now live: “Bitsquatting dot gov.au domains – exploring network data bitflips in DNS traffic.” Watch here: youtu.be/wuOzxKkYgo0

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Paul McCarty is now live: “Panda Mirror: How the Chinese CCP manipulates NPM to horde malware.” Watch here: youtu.be/oBzG7XOByII

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Ananda Dhakal & Rafie Muhammad is now live: “Catching WordPress 0-Days on the Fly.” Watch here: youtu.be/-K5BZGWrtqM

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Cybears is now live: “Intro to CTF.” Watch here: youtu.be/5GuYGO6CrVQ

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Rajiv Shah is now live: “When will a quantum computer be able to crack modern encryption and what should we do about it?” Watch here: youtu.be/L6QnyTAf2Pw

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Jeremy Keast is now live: “WTF is a TLA? Come and play a fast round of Cyber Buzzword Bingo.” Watch here: youtu.be/sjrNYUv1GIw

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by David Robinson is now live: “Navigating Planes in a Hostile Radio World.” Watch here: youtu.be/bMGlBCwc5sA

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Alexander Wilczek is now live: “Behind the Curtain of Dark Web and Cybercrime Operations.” Watch here: youtu.be/2zNvNwd1FAw

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Adam Jon Foster (evildaemond) is now live: “You’re Key Is My Key - Breaking Key Controls.” Watch here: youtu.be/qGCmdPvnEYM

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Kristin Smith is now live: “Is this Binary Naughty or Nice? How Google leverages ML and Santa to detect persistence on macOS.” Watch here: youtu.be/YJWfkTU6MLc

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Jia Hao Poh is now live: “Primitives for Security Audits: Lessons from Jakarta Mail.” Watch here: youtu.be/BMwfTzxo5_4

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Animesh Acharya is now live: “Navigating Bug Bounties: From NAs to P1s.” Watch here: youtu.be/9etzR_sobh0

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Annie Nie is now live: “GET into the Mainframe.” Watch here: youtu.be/wWdXSV41lxM