I'm still seeking some discussion group leads as well as some resume reviewers for the The @DianaInitiative community space at @defcon this year - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScU8mVc3v1rUnrXgcwLSJY85TIIkXECyyJouD2x61l-KtVSog/viewform?usp=dialog

tl;dr mentor needed short term

We have scholarship winners! we are giving them hotel and donated Black Hat and SquadCon and DEF CON tickets - but we also want to give them a short term mentor, can you help out?

Interested? please fill out this form https://forms.gle/dmvPvRAacfCGKy1e8 thanks!

Can you help them out, June - August, to

a) prepare for travel, some have never booked flights or stayed in hotels before

b) prepare to network at Black Hat and DEF CON

c) prepare to job search and take advantage of the many career villages at hacker summer camp

d) help them come up with a plan for summer camp - what villages and events to go to, should they start doing any prep in advance? what should they bring?

e) help them follow up with connections they made at hacker summer camp

One winner, is interested in Network Security, Offensive Security

tl;dr mentor needed short term

We have scholarship winners! we are giving them hotel and donated Black Hat and SquadCon and DEF CON tickets - but we also want to give them a short term mentor, can you help out?

Interested? please fill out this form https://forms.gle/dmvPvRAacfCGKy1e8 thanks!

Can you help them out, June - August, to

a) prepare for travel, some have never booked flights or stayed in hotels before

b) prepare to network at Black Hat and DEF CON

c) prepare to job search and take advantage of the many career villages at hacker summer camp

d) help them come up with a plan for summer camp - what villages and events to go to, should they start doing any prep in advance? what should they bring?

e) help them follow up with connections they made at hacker summer camp

One winner, is interested in are Incident Response, Digital Forensic and Threat Intelligence.

Are you currently still planning to come to hacker summer camp aka @DianaInitiative @BSidesLV @blackgirlshack @defcon ?

If you hate noise, grab some Loop (or other brand) earplugs now and make sure they work and are comfy.

Are you currently still planning to come to hacker summer camp @DianaInitiative @BSidesLV @blackgirlshack @defcon ? then break in your new shoes now, or get nice insoles asap and break your feet in to those.

Need more @heidishmoo in your life? Heidi is keynote-ing @DianaInitiative this year!

https://www.dianainitiative.org/annual-event/speakers

Tickets are only 25$ (there are fancy more expensive tickets if you want to support us)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-diana-initiative-2025-tickets-1257583047749

tl;dr mentor needed short term - pentesting

We have scholarship winners! we are giving them hotel and donated Black Hat and SquadCon and DEF CON tickets - but we also want to give them a short term mentor, can you help out?

Interested? please fill out this form https://forms.gle/dmvPvRAacfCGKy1e8 - thanks!

Can you help them out, June - August, to

a) prepare for travel, some have never booked flights or stayed in hotels before

b) prepare to network at Black Hat and DEF CON

c) prepare to job search and take advantage of the many career villages at hacker summer camp

d) help them come up with a plan for summer camp - what villages and events to go to, should they start doing any prep in advance? what should they bring?

e) help them follow up with connections they made at hacker summer camp

One winner, is interested in being mentored in pentesting and cybersecurity education.

tl;dr mentor needed short term - Incident Response, Forensics, Networking, Blue Team, Red Team, Federal Service

We have scholarship winners! we are giving them hotel and donated Black Hat and SquadCon and DEF CON tickets - but we also want to give them a short term mentor, can you help out?

One winner, she is interested in Incident Response, Forensics, Networking, Blue Team, Red Team, Federal Service. These are students so in a lot of cases they are not really sure exactly what they want yet.

Can you help them out, June - August, to

a) prepare for travel, some have never booked flights or stayed in hotels before

b) prepare to network at Black Hat and DEF CON

c) prepare to job search and take advantage of the many career villages at hacker summer camp

d) help them come up with a plan for summer camp - what villages and events to go to, should they start doing any prep in advance? what should they bring?

e) help them follow up with connections they made at hacker summer camp

If yes please fill out this form https://forms.gle/dmvPvRAacfCGKy1e8 - thanks!

We are very grateful to Iron Spear Information Security Ltd for becoming our first Platinum Sponsor for 2025!

Iron Spear Information Security Ltd is a Canadian cyber security advisory and management firm specializing in building, operating, and measuring cyber security programs across a variety of industries in both IT and OT environments.

Tickets are selling fast, so grab yours before they're gone at https://bsidesyxe.ca

#IronSpear #BSides #BSidesYXE #Saskatoon #Cybersecurity

@falcon :(

Y’all. Mastodon has a new Terms of Service that’s problematic. I’m hoping and cautiously optimistic that they’ll sort it out. But for now it’s not good.

@mcc wrote one of the best GitHub issues I’ve ever seen. It explains everything in great detail. Check it out if you want a full picture on the situation.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

🧵 1/2

(UPDATE: our crowd-sourced concern has them pausing on this. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821)

#Mastodon #TOS #IP #IntellectualProperty

Quite stoked to be speaking at @defcon 33 this year, presenting: "7 Vulns in 7 Days: Breaking Bloatware Faster Than It’s Built".

Reversing, exploits, disclosure pain - it has it all, and it's going to be fun! 💥

See ya soon Vegas. ☀️

It takes a village!
We are on the lookout for awesome volunteers to join us for this year’s Adversary Village at @defcon
If you’re interested in being part of the action, meeting new people, and helping us make the event a success, we would love to have you on the team!

Call for Volunteers URL: https://adversaryvillage.org/call-for-volunteers
#AdversaryVillage #DEFCON33 #CallForVolunteers

Friendly reminder to all Workshops CFP submitters: Responses have gone out! If you don’t see a response to your submission in your inbox, please check your spam folder.

Thanks to everyone who sent in a submission and congratulations to everyone that’s been selected.

#defcon33 #defcon #workshops #defconworkshops

Unfortunately we had 100s of submissions for only 10 Hacker Summer Camp scholarships. 10 people have been contacted and given 7 days to reply about accepting the scholarship, 10 people have not been contacted because they are the backups if the winners can not accept, and the rest have gotten their emails indicating they were not chosen. hopefully we raise more funds soon as we only have $1k donated by Sublime Security and $2,270 from individuals so thats 330$ per person. We are paying for hotel room for the winners, and they get TDI passes and Black Hat passes and Squadcon passes and DEF CON passes. But they need to get to las vegas, and get from hotel to events, and eat.

Hello friends, and thanks for your patience!

We are pleased to announce #PancakesCon 6: Family Brunch will occur on September 21, 2025! Here are some important dates to remember:

Call for Volunteers Opens: 28 June, 2025
Call for Volunteers Closes: 28 August, 2025

Call for Papers Opens: 26 July, 2025
Call for Papers Closes: 9 August, 2025
Call for Papers Results Provided By: 23 August, 2025

Call for Sponsors Opens: 28 June, 2025

Links to all the above will be posted on our social channels and Slack!

I would love it if those who are willing could answer this survey about your ticket price, and food options, all results will be public but I intend for this to be a useful resource for those running events:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2EfMSP3zDgq4fK-7g-pB06_CddLntbOtix_d7O9y3dgwZXg/viewform?usp=dialog

I would also love any other research/writeup etc you have on the topics of food and attendance and ticket price.

Someone else posted this, which reminded me; if you haven't seen @deviantollam on Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness) and you're considering protests or, you know, living in the world, you should. Now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihrGNGesfI

do I know anyone at LinkedIn a friend's account got banned, for unspecified reasons, and would like to see if we can get it back

I'm going to list this Commodore 1701 monitor on eBay this weekend, starting at $350. If you're reading this and are in Melbourne, I will personally bring it to your door for that price.

It is tested, in working order, and has an intact front panel cover. It is a unicorn.

I will not be shipping it anywhere, it'll be pick-up only on eBay. It's not worth the hassle or the risk.

Edit: now listed on the electric harbour or whatever it's called.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/226814210355