And that's a wrap for us in 2025. Thanks to all our speakers, volunteers, sponsors, and audience for making this a community we all want to be a part of.
For those of you going to @hackfest.bsky.social in a couple weeks, enjoy!
Using Taylor Swift reinforcements to poison LLM training weights? Now we've got bad blood...
Allyn Stott is back at BSides Toronto talking about how to do Incident Response in a world with chatbot poisoning
CEO Noah Stanford giving an overview of Repacket's DLP solution
Thank you to our lunch sponsor Repacket, a Canadian company that helps protect you when an employee inevitably makes a security process mistake.
Here they show the Furbo device registration steps as an example to show how attacks can be implemented at this step
Thanks to Julian and Calvin giving a talk on abuse cases for IoT toys under the title "Hacking Furbo: A Pet Project"
Rene reveals his first of 3 discovered coming vulnerabilities: you've got to authorize access to backend systems
Rene Brandel is giving an informative and entertaining talk on some commonalities he found breaking 7 YCombinator Spring 2025 AI agents. Key threat modelling tip: treat agents like users and not an API server.
GitHub: github.com/renebrandel
Premier sponsor tailscale kicking off the conference
BSides Toronto is underway! Thanks to our sponsors that make this happen: tailscale, Repacket, CREST, Rapid7, Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst and revenni
There's still some tickets left to this upcoming weekend conference in #Toronto as a #BSide to our friends at #SecTor. If you missed the initial announcement, don't miss out on getting your tickets now
Https://www.bsidesto.ca/
Dust off the denim jacket, crank up the synth, and get ready to hack the planet 80's style. Tickets are now on sale at www.bsidesto.ca ya dig?
The final piece we want to share with you today is that our CFP is closing on August 18th, so please get your submissions to us though our double blind evaluation platform at pretalx.com/bsides-toron...
I also want to thank our Gold level sponsor Rapid7. Please check them out at www.rapid7.com
I want to sincerely thank our Premiere Sponsor Tailscale for this year's BSides Toronto event. Please by all means check them out at tailscale.com for your secure way of managing environments and devices remotely
Good news everyone! The CFP for BSides Toronto is Open! Please consider giving a talk and check out the details on www.bsidesto.ca
I've got some fun news for you all! This year's BSides Toronto is going to be happening over the weekend of October 4th and 5th. Planning has begun and sponsorship is being solicited
Hello World, and by that I mean @bsideslv.org
BSides Toronto comming on line across the Bluesky
