Cybersecurity Events

Hacks In Taiwan Community — Taiwan's largest hacker conference. Two days of talks in English and Mandarin covering offensive research, hardware reversing and APT analysis.

Attack-defense final between the 12 teams that qualified through Nautilus Institute's quals. Held on the DEF CON main floor over three full game days.

The world's largest hacker convention. Multiple talk tracks, dozens of villages (Car Hacking, ICS, Bio-Hacking, AI, …), the DEF CON CTF Finals, badge hacking and an irreverent culture you have to experience to understand.

Community-organized infosec un-conference held the days before DEF CON. Single-track talks, a packed Pros vs. Joes CTF and a famously social hallway track.

The largest commercial information security conference. Four days of hands-on technical training followed by two days of briefings, a vendor expo and the Black Hat Arsenal open-source tools track.

Google's annual jeopardy-style CTF. Online 48-hour qualification round; top teams advance to an invite-only hackceler8 finale at Google offices.

Toronto's longest-running security meetup. Monthly evening talks from local practitioners followed by drinks. Free to attend.

OWASP's annual European application security conference. Two days of training followed by three days of talks across AppSec engineering, threat modeling, secure SDLC and emerging AI/LLM security topics.

Global gathering of CSIRTs and incident response teams. Closed sessions for FIRST members on Monday, public conference Tuesday through Friday covering threat intel sharing, IR tooling and operational coordination.

Free monthly meetup of the OWASP New York City chapter. Two short talks on application security followed by pizza and discussion.

Monthly Paris chapter meetup of DEF CON Groups. Beers, lightning talks and CTF write-ups in a relaxed bar setting. Open to anyone, no badge required.

Europe's flagship information security exhibition and conference. Three days of vendor keynotes, technical workshops and an enormous exhibitor floor at ExCeL London.

33rd edition of DEF CON, held in August 2025 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Headline themes included AI red-teaming, automotive ECUs and post-quantum crypto.

2025 edition of Black Hat USA at Mandalay Bay. Notable themes: agentic-AI security, supply chain attacks, and continued investment in defensive automation tracks.