🇨🇦🦃 Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! 🦃🇨🇦

Thanks to those for presenting at BSides Toronto 2026. If you missed any of the talks, here's a Video playlist of what was presented on Saturday this year: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

That’s a wrap for day 1. These talks were all recorded and will be uploaded to youtube.com/@bsidestoronto… about a week.

Tomorrow’s talks are following Chatham house rules. chathamhouse.org/about-us/chath…

Now @moshetov gives us a walk through on pwning through IDE extensions out in the wild. There's no whitelisting around it because there's no new code, and even removing malicious or vulnerable ones doesn't fix it until the IDE is restarted.

Wow

Thank you Najam Ul Saqib for travelling all the way to Toronto to give your talk on the Damn Vulnerable ElectronJS App and talking us through the idiosyncrasies and how to practice breaking them.

It was a great talk and a useful tool you gave us

Shifting gears for a bit with Jason Murray reminding us of the real world motivators we need to play in the space with when convincing organizations to improve their security.

His argument is risk runs the world of security. Managing it is what the business cares about

Aleksa Zatezalo blasted through his talk titled From Schema to Shell: The Agentic Exploitation of GraphQL APIs

Some interesting tools shared and real world test results shared. Will be tracking this to see how it grows and refines

We've kicked off the talks with Justin Borland's The Malware is coming from inside the repo presentation.

Gotta love seeing the community coming together and learning how to kick the bad guys out of our tool chains

Last touches for tomorrow's presentation!

See you at @BSidesTO

BSides Toronto is this weekend! Did you get your ticket yet? There's still some available at bsidesto.ca and while you're there check out all the awesome stuff we have going on. We hope to see you there!

Thanks to our friends over at @sectorca we will be auctioning off a ticket to this year and next year's full briefings pass. This will be a is a charitable donation to our charity of choice Centre for Addiction and Mental Health @CAMHnews

Every year we put on a great CTF thanks to our volunteer planners, but not every year do we have @tracelabs running the Search Party CTF where you can help find real missing people using OSINT.

Come participate Oct 3rd at BSides Toronto

We are thrilled to have our friends at @physsec and @toool running our physical security village this upcoming Saturday. There’s always ways to circumvent the digital security controls with physical access so come learn more

Thank you 🙏 to our returning gold level sponsor @Cybersecure_CA who will have a table at BSides Toronto this weekend for you to check out all the cool initiatives they have for individuals, organizations and entrepreneurs

We’re excited to have the Canadian Communications Security Establishment @cse_cst partnering with us this year. They will be recruiting on-site so for those looking for work in a patriotic way, come prepared

Thank you to @RevenniInc for being BSides Toronto’s most consistent sponsor, again supporting us at the Silver sponsorship level. They are your local Linux consulting and pen testings specialists

Thank you to our gold level sponsors over at @pktlabs for assisting us in putting on this year’s event. Stop by their table to thank them for supporting the community event, and discuss all their security services offered

And a giant thank you to the Cybersecurity program of @TorontoMet for being our host sponsor giving us the area in which to hold BSides Toronto again this year. We would have to run our event very differently without your support

A big 🙏 thank you 🙏to our lunch sponsor perfectlylogical.com/who’d gone above and beyond supporting this year’s event Be sure to check them out to see how their professional services can help you

🎉 BSides Toronto ticket sale announcement 🎉

Tickets are now on sale for our event on the weekend Oct 3rd and 4th, immediately before @sectorca

Check out all the cool stuff we’ve got going on those days at bsidesto.ca where you can chose to purchase tickets too

🇨🇦 HAPPY CANADA DAY 🇨🇦

While you've got a day off to celebrate the nation please consider submitting to the BSides Toronto Call For Papers. The CFP closes at the end of July 6th, so submit your talk proposals and check the rules at pretalx.com/bsides-toronto…