Speakers at Security Fest 2025

These are the speakers of Security Fest 2025. More will be added as we get closer to the conference.

John Wilander

Hackers in Fiction: Tropes, Reality, and Friggin' Awesome

From cyberpunk novels to blockbuster movies, hacker fiction has captivated audiences with tales of digital rebellion and clever exploits. But how much of it is realistic? Could those hacks work? In this Keynote, John Wilander explores the intersection...

Stephan Berger

Anti-Forensics - You are doing it wrong (Believe me, I'm an IR consultant)

In this talk, we'll dissect common anti-forensics strategies—like USN Journal deletion, shellbag clearing, timestamp manipulation, and disabling access time updates—and reveal how they are often executed ineffectively or misunderstood. We'll explore...

Emil Trägårdh

Closer to 0-day

Find » Understand » Exploit » Mitigate. No Patches or Fixes: Last year I argued 1days (or ndays) is as close to 0-day as you can come without being the actual finder your self. Let me challenge that statement this year and take you one step closer to...

Csaba Fitzl

Finding Vulnerabilities in Apple packages at Scale

In the past couple of years exploiting Apple signed installer packages became a common theme, as the Apple package installer runs with very powerful entitlements, which allows an attacker to bypass certain parts of System Integrity Protection (SIP)....

Thomas O (Skjortan)

Hack in a box: Local Language Models for automating Red Teaming and penetration testing.

In this talk, we explore how small local language models (SLMs) can be seamlessly integrated into your red teaming and penetration testing workflows to optimise and speed up the discovery, scanning, and exploitation phases as well as report writing....

Chandler McClellan

Hack the Gap - Closing the CTI Divide Between Small Teams and Big Players

Defending against threat actors demands actionable threat intelligence, but smaller organizations usually lack the dedicated teams and substantial budgets of large enterprises. Discover how you can create impactful and high-quality CTI without the...

Konrad Jedrzejczyk

Marek Zmyslowski

Integrating AI with Retro Hardware: A Commodore 64 LLM Module

In this presentation, we aim to showcase a module that bridges the gap between the past and the future of computing. Our focus is a fully functional cartridge designed for the Commodore 64, equipped with a Large Language Model (LLM) trained on custom...

Patricia Lindén

Is there a before and an after, or a happily ever after?

Ransomware isn't going anywhere anytime soon, yet few is talking about what really happens from the inside. Here is the story from a primarily non-technical business that got hit last year and survived. What had we prepped, how did we prioritize,...

Eric Capuano

Whitney Champion

Modernizing Incident Response Using Techniques that Scale

Traditional digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) techniques often fall short, struggling to keep up with the speed and scale required by modern environments. This talk explores the limitations of these traditional methods, examining why they...

Will Hunt

Plundering and pillaging password and passphrase plains for profit

In this talk we'll look beyond the basics of cracking and arm you with further attacks when you feel you're out of options. We'll look at multiple paths for cracking delimited passphrases and review when you'd want to use these attacks and why....

Christien 'DilDog' Rioux

Privacy, Veilid, And You

This presentation is a high-level but technical overview of the Cult Of The Dead Cow's latest effort, Veilid. First, some history of cDc, its members, and our efforts in the security and privacy space will be discussed. Second, we will review where we...

Alain Mowat

SonicDoor - Cracking open SonicWall's Secure Mobile Access

Vulnerabilities in commercial-grade SSL VPN devices have been all too common in the past few years. An internal research project aimed at comparing the security level of these devices identified that SonicWall devices tend to have fewer reported...

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