Main Stage·57 min
Cliff Stoll
Cliff Stoll reflects on the 40th anniversary of tracking down an international KGB cyber espionage ring originating from a 75-cent accounting error.
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Main Stage·57 min
Cliff Stoll
Cliff Stoll reflects on the 40th anniversary of tracking down an international KGB cyber espionage ring originating from a 75-cent accounting error.
Main Stage·45 min
Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier examines how artificial intelligence systems hack human institutions, tax codes, financial markets, and legal frameworks.
Main Stage·44 min
Cybertiger · Colonel Panic · The Wrew
Cybertiger, Colonel Panic, and The Wrew introduce low-cost counter-surveillance hardware built around the ESP32 to detect tracking devices.
Main Stage·46 min
Bill Swearingen
Bill Swearingen explores whether adversarial patterns printed on everyday clothing can effectively fool commercial and municipal facial recognition algorithms.
Main Stage·36 min
Aaron Schulman · Jerry Yu · Yibo Wei
Shows how an aftermarket dealer-installed car alarm shipped one shared key across its units, letting a smartphone unlock and immobilize vehicles.
IoT Village·40 min
Andrew Bellini
Shows how a beginner can use AI agents and a cheap bench rig to find and exploit bugs in consumer IoT firmware, using a router as the example.
Bug Bounty Village·25 min
Pedro Paniago
Walks through a bug bounty hunter's experiment wiring AI into his manual methodology, with the results, limits and practical tips it produced.
Main Stage·49 min
Jon Gaines
Walks through a self-funded teardown of Flock Safety gunshot detectors, license plate readers and edge compute boxes, from UART access to exposed camera feeds.
AppSec Village·30 min
Simcha Kosman
Shows how a ChatGPT code sandbox was chained into a command-and-control channel using spreadsheet parsing abuse, reasoning injection, and covert signaling over a shared package proxy.
Bug Bounty Village·21 min
Glendon Chong
Walks through three TikTok bug bounty reports where web cache poisoning on an OAuth login endpoint led to account takeovers.
Aerospace Village·26 min
Lily · Adam · Robert · Kevin
Presents SAOv3, a draft add-on standard for conference badges, plus open-source OLED animation tooling that removes screen tearing.
Main Stage·46 min
Vladimir Tokarev · Ofek Itach
Walks through three native-code memory bugs in llama.cpp and Ollama, from an Android JNI use-after-free to a Go/C out-of-bounds heap read.
Main Stage·47 min
Vitaly Simonovich
Shows how LLM-assisted research turned five open-source C2 frameworks into a source of flaws that defenders can use against attacker infrastructure.
Main Stage·1 hr 14 min
Jason Clinton · Bruce Schneier · Heather Adkins
Panelists debate how to evaluate and release dual-use AI models, weighing open-weights diffusion and defender advantage as capabilities climb.
Main Stage·36 min
Matteo Giordano
Maps passkey attack surface across authenticators, cross-device transport, browsers, relying parties and cloud sync, with a Burp extension to test them.
Main Stage·45 min
Martin Vigo
Follows a researcher's multi-angle attempt to defeat Bluetooth-operated Amazon lockers, from BLE protocol reversing to firmware extraction and physical lock work.
ICS Village·22 min
Amir Zaltzman
Shows how refrigeration controllers from two major vendors were compromised through firmware extraction, emulation and chained flaws.
Bug Bounty Village·27 min
Bogdan Steele · Arnav Garg
Presents MPG, a framework that mutates confirmed indirect prompt injection payloads to measure how many variants still bypass an AI assistant's safeguards.
BioHacking Village·25 min
D Castillo-Cornejo · M Woslum · Z Zinck
Presents a low-cost, open-source eDNA air sampler for catching ancient and airborne DNA as part of climate-linked biosurveillance.
Main Stage·24 min
Guanxing Wen
Shows how a crypto phone's MediaTek boot chain can be patched in memory from bootrom onward, and how the lock-screen and wallet keys behind it can be recovered.
IoT Village·42 min
Larry Pesce
Shows how an AI agent driven by an IoT pentest playbook found and chained flaws in a webcam, and what humans must still validate.
Physical Security Village·25 min
Andrew Lebedinsky
Shows how to turn physical red team findings into realistic threat evidence and dollar-based impact that persuades executives to fund fixes.
Physical Security Village·26 min
Bill Graydon · Bobby Graydon
Explains which physical marks lock picking, tool-based bypasses, and electronic tampering leave behind, and how to tell whether a door was entered.
Main Stage·48 min
Daniel Monzon · Eric Labrador
Presents five new Active Directory Certificate Services escalation techniques that take a domain user to krbtgt extraction on a fully patched Windows Server 2025 CA.
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