Talks

Workshops and talks I’ve given at conferences, meetups and universities, newest first. Slides and code are linked where I can share them.

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2026

1 entry

· co-founder · presenter

SlopCon

DEF CON 34 · Las Vegas, USA

A satirical late-night con: AI writes every talk submission and runs the review committee, and humans get on stage to present whatever it came up with. “AI generated, human presented.”

2024

1 entry

· workshop

Flipping the Coin: Red and Blue Teaming in Windows Environments

DEF CON 32 · Las Vegas, USA

With Troy Defty

The second run of the workshop, with upgraded attack paths and labs and new gMSA content. On the red side: Pass the Hash, ADCS abuse, golden tickets and DLL hijacking. On the blue side: catching each one with Sigma and Yara rules and ELK.

2023

3 entries

· talk

Auditing Salesforce Lightning Applications

TuskCon 2023 · Cotton Tree, Maroochydore QLD

An hour-long run of the SecTalks talk, in the closing slot of TuskCon, a weekend hacker con held at a beachside campground on the Sunshine Coast. It covered how Salesforce Lightning sites, built on the Aura framework, differ from typical web apps, and how to audit them for security issues.

· workshop

Flipping the Coin: Red and Blue Teaming in Windows Environments

DEF CON 31 · Las Vegas, USA

With Troy Defty

A four-hour hands-on workshop. Attendees attacked a Windows domain with tools like BloodHound and Mimikatz, then wrote Sigma and Yara detections for the same attacks, to show why red and blue teams get the best results working together.

· talk

Auditing Salesforce Lightning Applications

SecTalks SYD0x4A (74th) · Sydney

Salesforce Lightning sites are built on the Aura framework and behave differently from a typical web app, which brings its own set of security challenges. This talk covered how to audit them.

2022

1 entry

· workshop

Active Directory Workshop

UTS and UNSW · Sydney

With Andrew Suters & Riley Kidd

An offensive workshop teaching uni students how real-world Active Directory domains get hacked through chains of vulnerabilities, rather than one-off bugs.

2021

1 entry

· workshop

Active Directory Workshop

Monash University, University of Melbourne and QUT · Melbourne and Brisbane

With Andrew Suters & Riley Kidd

An offensive workshop teaching uni students how real-world Active Directory domains get hacked through chains of vulnerabilities, rather than one-off bugs.

2020

1 entry

· talk

Android Notification Malware

Online

How malicious Android apps can read and steal your notifications.