We've received so many excellent workshop CFP responses for DEATHCon 2025, and we'll be sending acceptance messages by tomorrow, June 1st! After workshop leaders confirm acceptance, we'll be listing the workshops on https://deathcon.io/workshops.html over the next few weeks. Thanks all!

The DEATHCon 2025 Call for Workshops is now open!
If you have a great idea for teaching people how to do #detectionengineering or #threathunting or an adjacent skill through hands-on experience in our lab, we'd love to hear it! https://deathcon.io/cfp.html Submit before June 1

CISA’s Red Team has been cut by DOGE. Somebody go hire them, they’re really good.

https://DEATHCon.io is updated with the 11 confirmed locations for in-person events, our dedication to making it affordable with pay-what-you-can pricing, why and how we're valuing diversity and representation, and more! Check it out!

This one small box holds 14 TB of nvme storage, 368 GB of DDR5 RAM, 120 Intel CPU cores, and one 🐸

If you own a vehicle, just a reminder to check the air in your tires if your car doesn't have those sensors to alert you when the pressure is low. I recently upgraded the rims and tires on my truck and then realized the other day the sensors no longer worked. After the most recent cold snap, I found the tires all had about half of the air they should have.

The winner of the People's Choice Award for Best Workshop is... Practical Adversary Emulation, by Greg Ake (https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-ake) Principal Detection Engineer at @huntresslabs
Congratulations Greg!

One of the fun experimental activities we tried for DEATHCon this year was creating an original game ROM for the Game Boy, playable on the web in a JS emulator: https://deathcon.io/anubis-game

This was of course inspired by the really cool @defcon electronic badge, and the rom is playable on that hardware if you have it!

I'm curious to know if anyone else has built a GB game for a conference or is considering doing so?

Check out! New sharing community for Threat Hunters, from some amazing people I greatly respect @letswastetime and @Jotunvillur

HEARTH (Hunting Exchange And Research Threat Hub)!

Hey thrunters! A new open-source home to:
- Share hunt ideas
- Learn from others
- Level up together

Built by hunters, for hunters 🎯
https://threathuntingcommunity.com

#threathunting #thrunting #infosec #HEARTH

Hard to believe it's finally almost time again for DEATHCon! This weekend in person in Seattle, Orlando, Montreal, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, and Kuala Lumpur as well as online remote from anywhere around the world. We have the most amazing lineup of hands on threat hunting workshops from some fabulous teachers, some exciting CTGs from @tracebit_com and @TheDFIRReport and some amazing parties planned on Saturday evening. I can't wait!!

One Seattle participant changed to an online attendee, so we have one ticket to Seattle now available. If you'd like to join us, here's the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/928607629417/

One Seattle participant changed to an online attendee, so we have one ticket to Seattle now available. If you'd like to join us, here's the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/928607629417/

Two more really interesting hands-on workshops about detection engineering and threat hunting have been added to the DEATHCon lineup:

Elizabeth Spotswood will be leading a workshop on setting up defense in depth for network systems and micro-segmenting in AWS. You will also learn how to set up web application firewalls and more!

Fabian Bader will deliver a workshop on a fairly new feature of Kusto Query Language: graphs! It's often been said that attackers think in graphs, while defenders think in lists. Recently, Microsoft Sentinel and XDR made graph queries generally available. You'll learn how to use this feature to discover lateral movement paths before attackers discover them for you.

Check out all the workshops here:
https://DEATHCon.io/workshops.html

Happy Friday, my friends. Don’t forget to push to production on your way out the door this afternoon. 🎉

And now we're down to three tickets left for Seattle, plus one that we're reserving to be a free ticket to be given away to a student or anyone who really wants to go but can't because of the cost. We'll probably be giving that away soon, and we'll share the details here

13 tickets remaining for Seattle DEATHCon! We've reserved the lucky 13th final ticket to be given away for free to a student or anyone who wouldn't be able to buy the ticket otherwise. Follow this account to see details of how to apply when the time comes!

More than half the DEATHCon Seattle tickets are already sold! Looks like a real fun group of people already, and we're looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting some new folks! Come join the fun!
https://DEATHCon.io

The Amsterdam site for DEATHCon is completely sold out, as are the online tickets! We've still got tickets left for Kuala Lumpur, Edinburgh, Montreal, Orlando, and Seattle. Remember: you can sleep when you're dead, but you can't sleep on getting DEATHCon tickets ;)

I delivered a talk at @bsidesseattle on how to prepare for and deliver testimony on information security to policymakers up to and including the US Senate, and I'm very pleased with how it came out.

Big thanks to @eanmeyer for that bangin title.

"What To Expect When You're Expecting To Testify"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvJTrYbnRTQ

@Viss yes I think so. I haven't watched the video yet (I will when it's not early in the morning so I don't wake up my family) but the subject looks great