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Announcement! ----Redacted------ With Bsides Joburg happening this weekend, we have some announcements coming! Date, venue, call for papers, early bird tickets etc will be revealed there. Also keep an eye out on socials and bsidescapetown.co.za. We are excited for another

@BSidesJobur coming to you in 19 hours! Keep an eye out between all the hackers for hint drops and announcements! Amazing talks, amazing hackers, amazing organisers, get ready! #bsidesjhb #bsidesjoburg #bsides #techsouthafrica

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🧡 We’re proud to welcome Orange Cyberdefense South Africa back as a Gold Sponsor for #BSidesCPT 2025! A long-time supporter of the local infosec community, they’re once again helping us create spaces to learn, connect and grow.

A browser that reboots your machine? That’s not a feature, that’s Leon Jacobs’ kind of fun. In 7 Vulns in 7 Days, he unpacks a week-long dive through bloatware and bad privilege boundaries. Join him at BSides Cape Town 2025 for bugs, exploits, and a few laughs at vendor expense.

They’ve been with us for years and are back! MWR CyberSec joins BSides Cape Town 2025 as a Silver Sponsor, reinforcing South Africa’s cybersecurity community. Proud to have them in our corner!

Forget awareness training — Mooncake’s tackling phishing with Whack A Phish! Join Geoffrey Chisnall (Geoffrey Chisnall AKA MooncakeZA) at BSides Cape Town 2025 to learn real-world techniques for dismantling phishing sites.

They said don’t try this at home. Dale Nunns heard do it, document it, and crash gloriously. In Rapid Unplanned Disassembly, he hacks cheap drones, and lets physics take over. Code. Chaos. Carnage. Expect code, chaos, and a masterclass in learning from wreckage, only at BSides

We're excited to have Mobius Binary back as a Silver Sponsor for BSides Cape Town 2025! From pentesting to security research, their fingerprints are all over the local infosec scene (in the best possible way). We’re proud to have their continued support.

Kobus van Schoor lost his keys — and built an encryption framework to find them! Help, I Lost My Keys dives into TPM-backed full-disk encryption with verified boot, Tang, WireGuard, and more. Catch it live at BSides Cape Town 2025!

Level up, hackers! TryHackMe is back as a Gold Sponsor for BSides Cape Town 2025! From virtual labs to gamified learning, they empower aspiring defenders and pentesters in cybersecurity. Here’s to making hacking accessible, one challenge at a time! #BSidesCT #TryHackMe

Forget PowerPoint, bring your panic. Join Jaco Swanepoel (Jaco) at BSides Cape Town 2025 as he transforms the audience into an incident response team navigating a live, evolving breach scenario based on real-world state-sponsored operations.!

Telling an AI it’s a “senior pentester” doesn’t make it smart — it just makes it confidently wrong. In You Are an Expert CFP Submitter: Prompting AI to Hallucinate, Tinus Green exposes how our prompts fuel AI overconfidence — and how to fix it. Catch it at BSides Cape Town 2025.

We’re thrilled to announce our keynote speaker for BSides Cape Town 2025, the man, the myth, the legend, Charl van der Walt 🌻 ! In “I had a (bot) farm in Africa”, he unpacks 300+ real incidents to show how global tech and Africa’s unique landscape collide in cyberspace.

In “Hackers Hunt, Execs Fund”, Harry Grobbelaar demonstrates the art of fluent boardroom speak, by turning vulnerability data into business cases that even the CFO will love. Turning vulnerabilities into financial wins and security into strategy.

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Three tracks. Twenty-eight speakers. One community. BSides Cape Town 2025 is back, bigger, louder, and packed with stories from every corner of cybersecurity. Pick your track. Find your people. See what breaks next.

“Don’t worry, it’s for your safety.” Famous last words. In To Protect and Control: The Militarization of the Internet, Jared Naude explores how surveillance, spyware, and privacy laws are turning the web into a militarized battleground.