BSides Cape Town 2019
2019-12-11
Cape Town, South Africa
as the organisers put it
See our past events starting in 2011 - Just like the other chapters of BSides around the world, BSides Cape Town is an annual Information / Security conference that is different. We are a volunteer organised event, put on by and for the community.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Hacking satellites with Software Defined Radio (SDR) | Gerard de Jong | 45m |
Live demo shows a cheap RTL-SDR dongle plus a coat-hanger dipole and Raspberry Pi recording and replaying real signals, decoding ADS‑B with dump1090, AIS ship… | ||
| Macabre stories of a hacker in the public health sector (Chile) | Philippe Delteil | 36m |
Nationwide public health network covering ~14 million patients exposes insecure shares and backups; scanning finds ~150,000 devices and over 3 million files… | ||
| Meticulously Modern Mobile Manipulations | Leon Jacobs | 44m |
Shows how Frida gadget mode injects into final iOS/Android binaries on non‑jailbroken devices and how Objection wraps that into usable tooling, including an… | ||
| Hashing the $#!+ out of firmware | Brent Shaw | 36m |
Project extracts firmware with binwalk and FMK, unpacks every file, computes cryptographic and fuzzy hashes, and builds a searchable database from 1.8 TB of… | ||
| Web Application Vulnerability Scanners: An Intro & Discussion | Robert Feeney | 43m |
Web application scanners work but miss and misreport a lot: Burp Suite / ZAP proxies are better for authenticated, complex flows while automated crawlers like… | ||
| Put Words In My Mouth | Amy Manià | 39m |
Demonstrates that convincing voice clones can be made from tiny samples — down to five seconds of audio — using tools like Lyrebird and Tacotron (Adobe’s VoCo… | ||
| Keynote:The Woman Who Squashed Terrorists When an Embassy gets Hacked | Chris Kubeka | 38m |
An embassy email compromise escalates into a three month hybrid incident that combines extortion, espionage and terrorism using commercial off-the-shelf… | ||
| Authentication is Broken. Can We Try Fix It? | Kgothatso Ngako | 40m |
Proposes replacing passwords by storing xpubs instead of passwords and having users sign derivation-path challenges derived from hardened HD keys (BIP39/BIP32… | ||
| How machine learning and AI can help reduce the cyber- attacks | Silent Dzikiti | 42m |
Claims that ML and AI already cut alerts by automating anomaly detection, spam and phishing classification, and DDoS forecasting, citing a 22% increase in… | ||
| Natural Language Processing & Anomaly detection in Sys call logs | Christo Goosen | 47m |
Applies Natural Language Processing to Linux x86_64 syscall logs by tokenizing and hashing lines into a sparse matrix and classifying with off‑the‑shelf… | ||
| The Nation State Actor Ate My Homework! | Liam Smit | 44m |
Leaked toolsets from Shadow Brokers, WikiLeaks and Snowden show nation-state capabilities like zero days and firmware implants and Tempest EM collection are… | ||
| Gollum: One anti-phish bot to rule them all | Byron Rudman | 45m |
Gollum automates detection, classification, confirmation, reporting and tracking of credential phishing using referrer logs, anti‑phishing feeds and a… | ||
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