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

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Katie Deakin-Sharpe is now live: “Reverse Engineering Sherlock Holmes Style: Obfuscated APIs & The Art of Deduction.” Watch here: youtu.be/ctRh4egzwPs

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Matthew Flanagan is now live: “Panning for Gold - A Hacker’s Guide to Next Generation Firewalls.” Watch here: youtu.be/2PF4aSY1gVo

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Tonmoy Jitu is now live: “Atomic Stealer's Dyld Injection Tactics.” Watch here: youtu.be/Uz3LrTXbb-4

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Jack_Sessions is now live: “Unbreaking the iPhone: Bootchain Reversal, SEP Sabotage, and the iOS Kernel Frontier.” Watch here: youtu.be/fl57ot7aPF0

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Sean is now online: “From Sandbox Escapes to MCP Database Hijacks: Unveiling Agentic Vulnerabilities.” Watch here: youtu.be/G3MwPWvczdE

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Stephen Bradshaw is now online: “Abusing native cloud services for Command and Control” Watch here: youtu.be/9QE_FeJhiRc

New BSides Canberra 2025 talk by James Spencer is live: “Protecting the Forest, Starting at the Roots: AD Hardening & Defence” Watch here: youtu.be/WM5ULUE-7h4

Final CSides for the year this Friday, 14 Nov, 6pm at the Rex (Room 6)! “Against Imperva’s wishes, I made 10,000 kids” by Aeriana Lawler (Shiny Skitty) on bypassing anti-bot protections in Pokémon Go. Details: meetup.com/bsides-csides-infosec-meetups/events/308955523

Celebrating 10 years of amazing artwork for BSides Canberra! 🎨 Huge thanks to Sydney-based Aussie Glenno for bringing our logos to life. Real artists > AI every time. www.instagram.com/glennoart?ig...

Lots of DMs asking for BSides Canberra 2025 talks — they’ll be on YouTube in a month+ 🎥 Speakers are reviewing their sessions first, so stay tuned! 👉 youtube.com/@bsidescanbe...

A huge thanks to @int0x80.com for doing an amazing set at @bsidescbr.bsky.social. It was awesome to see one of the legends of hacker culture in person.

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!

It was great speaking at @bsidescbr.bsky.social the other day. For those who are interested I have put my slides up. If anyone has any comments or questions happy to chat. www.karit.nz/assets/slide...

A huge thank you to int80 from dualcore, @ytcracker.bsky.social, and dnz for an incredible Friday night party performance - and to Rival for opening. You all levelled up our celebrations and were just amazing people across the conference.

Thank you Rachel Noble for your outstanding keynote on Saturday morning. Engaging, generous with insights, 15 mins of Q&A, then mingling with attendees - a true highlight from the former ASD Director-General.

Thank you @shubs.io for being the opening keynote of BSides Canberra 2025. You kicked things off for a huge crowd of 2,500 in the Royal Theatre, plus everyone watching the live stream in the Exhall. Full of energy, insight, and inspiration.