With Easter coming up quick it is time for a date announcement.

1 March - CFP and call for crew opens
1 April - Pre talk announcement tickets
3 April CFP and CFC closes
~ 20 April speakers confirmed
~ 24 April main ticket drop

Links and stuff coming closer to the dates.

Happy birthday to co-flounder @nez_ze_nerd

We are trying to track down the owner of this car.

Is it yours or do you know who it belongs to?

This year's favourite swag item from @Steel_Con is my pickles. Theia has stolen my other one, but how freaking cute is this?!

Happy Yorkshire day!!! 😊

*checks ticket site* 😅

Happy Yorkshire day everyone

You can watch Aaron’s full SteelCon talk here:
📌 youtube.com/watch?v=hwog0e…

A couple of weeks ago, @thackeraaron was at @Steel_Con talking about a piece of hardware most people probably wouldn’t give a second thought.

An unbranded £10 4G USB modem.

The slightly odd part is that some of these devices come with 512MB of memory. Once Aaron started pulling at many were effectively headless Android phones hiding inside a USB stick.

His talk looked at how they can be rooted, reflashed, and loaded with custom firmware. With some work, an ordinary looking modem could be made to inject keystrokes, exfiltrate data, or carry command and control traffic.

And, because “Can it run DOOM?” wasn’t enough, Aaron reflashed one of the modems to run the game, then made it present itself to the host computer as a webcam.

Open the camera feed and, instead of anything remotely useful, you get DOOM!

Entirely necessary research, obviously.

#SteelCon #HardwareHacking #CyberSecurity

My @Steel_Con talk on compromising hybrid domains is now live!

The talk explains real-world attack paths spanning:
Active Directory
Microsoft Entra ID
Azure & M365

All based on real techniques I perform on authorised red team engagements.

youtu.be/g4-AO-3ze2U

Slightly late to the list, but just as entertaining as the rest, we've just added @MDisraeli's talk "Where Do We Go From Here? Towards A Philosophy Of Cyber Security"

youtube.com/watch?v=hL5AWD…

Want a Monday morning treat?

Our videos are now online:

youtube.com/playlist?list=…

We are missing a couple which will be added soon, and @ZephrFish is keeping his private.

Enjoy!

Thanks @Ministraitor

A week on from @Steel_Con I did a couple of takeaway blogs of talks that stood out to me.

everybodylovesraywood.wordpress.com

Cash from the Swag Stall donated to Purple House to say thanks for helping Thomas.

Thanks to everyone who bought something and put cash in the pot.

The brilliant @chrisratcliff has dropped all his photos into the album

photos.app.goo.gl/Vezq4o8Sef2R5V…

If there is a photo of you you want removing, please let us know.

The party booking form has just been signed by @nez_ze_nerd . There is no backing out now.

You should, I plan to arm the audience with nerf guns

The photo album is up and running, please submit your con photos here:

photos.app.goo.gl/Vezq4o8Sef2R5V…

@chrisratcliff is working hard on curating the ones he took on the day and they will be added shortly.

You heard it here second (Bluesky got it first), SteelCon 2027 will (probably) be on July 16-18. We still need to sign paperwork and check the party venue, but those dates are looking good.

Our brilliant ice cream suppliers, @OurCowMolly have a new project, reMooable Energy. They are turning farm waste into electricity and fertiliser.

They are trying to raise £600k to get it all up and running and need people to invest, can you spare £5?

sheffieldenergy.works/remooable

Already got as many comments that will be regretted as last year and it is only the day after the con.

I might have to start the opening talk earlier next year if this continues.