Security Fest 2025
An inspiring IT security conference in Gothenburg, Sweden featuring international speakers on offensive security, incident response, and privacy.
→ See editor’s top picks at Security Fest 2025
- Hackers in Fiction: Tropes, Reality, and Friggin' Awesome — John Wilander
John Wilander, a distinguished security engineer by day and an author who champions hackers as heroes by night, delivered an engaging talk at Security Fest titled "Hackers in Fiction: Tropes…
- Is there a before and an after, or a happily ever after? — Patricia Lindén
In this insightful Security Fest talk, Patricia Lindén, IT Security Manager at the Swedish sports retail giant Stadium, presents a candid and detailed post-mortem of a significant ransomware…
- Finding Vulnerabilities in Apple packages at Scale — Csaba Fitzl
This talk by Csaba Fitzl, a Principal macOS Security Researcher at Jamf, delves into the intricate world of macOS security, specifically focusing on the vulnerabilities found within Apple-signed…
- Hack in a box: Local Language Models for automating Red Teaming and penetration testing — Thomas O (Skjortan)
In his Security Fest talk, "Local Language Models for automating Red Teaming and penetration testing," Thomas O (Skjortan), CTO of Fio, delves into the ambitious endeavor of leveraging local Large…
- Plundering and pillaging password and passphrase plains for profit — Will Hunt
In this comprehensive Security Fest talk, Will Hunt, co-founder of UK-based pentesting company Insecurity and a key organizer of the Defcon Password Village, delves into advanced password and…
- Closer to 0-day — Emil Trägårdh
In this compelling talk at Security Fest, Emil Trägårdh, a Swedish ethical hacker, challenges a statement he made in a previous year: that **n-days** (vulnerabilities for which a patch exists) are…
- Integrating AI with Retro Hardware: A Commodore 64 LLM Module — Konrad Jedrzejczyk, Marek Zmyslowski
In a captivating presentation at Security Fest, Konrad Jedrzejczyk and Marek Zmyslowski unveiled an ambitious project that bridges the gap between vintage computing and cutting-edge artificial…
- Privacy, Veilid, And You — Christien 'DilDog' Rioux
In this compelling talk at Security Fest, Christien 'DilDog' Rioux, a legendary figure in the hacking community and a prominent member of the Cult Of The Dead Cow (CDC), unveiled Veilid – an…
- SonicDoor - Cracking open SonicWall's Secure Mobile Access — Alain Mowat
Alain Mowat, Head of Research and Development at Orange Cyber Defense in Switzerland, presented "SonicDoor - Cracking open SonicWall's Secure Mobile Access" at Security Fest. This talk meticulously…
- Anti-Forensics - You are doing it wrong (Believe me, I'm an IR consultant) — Stephan Berger
In this insightful talk from Security Fest, Stephan Berger, an Incident Response Team Lead at InfoGuard, challenges the common assumptions surrounding anti-forensic techniques. Titled…
- Modernizing Incident Response Using Techniques that Scale — Eric Capuano, Whitney Champion
In the rapidly evolving landscape of cyber threats, traditional incident response (IR) methodologies often fall short, leaving organizations vulnerable to fast-moving adversaries. This talk…
- Hack the Gap - Closing the CTI Divide Between Small Teams and Big Players — Chandler McClellan
In the contemporary cybersecurity landscape, the disparity in threat intelligence capabilities between large enterprises and smaller organizations presents a critical challenge. This talk, "Hack the…