We dropped the @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social transparency report yesterday, and we spend far too much on coffee and lunch! 🤣😭🤣 bsidesbelfast.org/2025/bsides-... #bsidesbelfast25 #bsidesbelfast24 #securitybsides
We were honoured to have Cyber Scotland CEO, Jude McCorry, as the closing keynote #bsidesbelfast24 with a highly engaging session on "Imposter Syndrome Yay or Nay" https://youtu.be/keuBfz_aB8w #bsidesbelfast
Continuing the lightning talks; Liam Follin aka Gr4y R0se gave us a deep dive into modern exploitation techniques, in the aptly named "No more alert(1)" https://youtu.be/LK9mAsYq2pA #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24
Taking us to the skys, Matthew Reaney of QUB CSIT ran us a lightning talk on their Cyber-AI research into "Teaching AI To Protect Planes" #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24
Allstate's Tanya Vacarda has us all "Hungry for love." with their presentation on "Online romance fraud tactics and why they are so efficient." https://youtu.be/X-PyHcG-PYg #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24
Jonny Milliken ("Benign, no threat") performed what was tantamount to group therapy, with "Automation: The cause of, and solution to, all of our problems" https://youtu.be/bFyuzS1kkFs #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24
The infamous Peter McConnell taught us how to "Hack the system: exploring libpam with uprobes and eBPF" #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24
Izzy Whistlecroft, a Security Researcher at Microsoft, talked about "Virtually Networkless - A dive into VSOCKs" #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24
Continuing our #bsidesbelfast24 video publications today is Emma Fang with "Metrics that Matter: how to Choose Cloud Security KPIs For Your Business" #bsidesbelfast
Conveniently enough, @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social seem to have synchronised their #bsidesbelfast24 publications to finish with our #locksport social tonight at The Woodworkers from 7pm! Impromptu watch party?
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Dr Syed Zia took us to the future of cybersecurity with "Post Quantum Migration - Whats the crack?" https://youtu.be/eJqUM6UW4z4 #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24
Stuart Kurutac gave us an insightful run down of "Patient data and where to find it" https://youtu.be/yDzBaQz8sk8 #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24
Stuart McMurray blew our SOCs off with "A Lazy Programmer’s Tips for Avoiding the SOC"! #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24
Mark Megarry gave us a horrifying demonstration of "Hackers with Radios: Security and the Physical Layer " #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24
Remco Sprooten of Elastic took us on a tour of "Malware Code Similarity Through Vectorsearch" #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24 https://youtu.be/vNM9969i7F8
Nico Shyne joined us from stateside to talk about "Domain Persistence in Active Directory: Detection, Triage, and Recovery" #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24 https://buff.ly/3Erik28
Our own Michelle Simpson is back again, with "When SSL Fails: Tracing the SSL vuln to the most shocking real world impacts" #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24
Next up it's "Hardware Hacking the Internet of Things (IoT)" with Deral Heiland #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24 youtu.be/aCiSQUntG0E
Next up we've got Holly Grace Williams of Akimbo Core on "Ten Years of Penetration Testing" #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast24 youtu.be/QygionHxCvI
Over the next days; we're finally letting #BSidesBelfast24 out of the vault and kicking off our sponsor solicitation for #BSidesBelfast25 at the end of this week!
First up is our Chair, the inimitable Michelle Simpson kicking off proceedings.
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