At CYBR.HAK.CON, Jason Haddix showed how AI-powered "hackbots" are helping offensive security teams scale reconnaissance, analyze complex applications, and uncover real vulnerabilities, while proving that human expertise remains the deciding factor.
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Dr. Eric Cole's cybersecurity accomplishments are legendary, but his willingness to speak openly about burnout is something that particularly resonated with me, as it is something many of us struggle to avoid.
AI may be making deception easier, but Dustin "Wirefall" Dykes argues that human connection -- not technology -- is the most effective defense against a future where reality itself becomes increasingly difficult to verify.
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In Appreciation: Dr. Eric Cole
Dr. Eric Cole's cybersecurity accomplishments are legendary, but his willingness to speak openly about burnout is something that particularly resonated with me, as it is something many of us struggle to avoid.
He Wasn't a Hacker. But He Was One of Us.
Thirty years after Sean Marley died, I realize that my focus on mental health in cybersecurity started with him. This is a belated thank you to him for helping me strive for something better. He wasn't a hacker. But he sure as hell was one of us.
CYBR.SEC.Media 2.0: How CYBR.SEC.Community Is Building a More Human Cybersecurity Media Platform
The new version of CYBR.SEC.Media puts community voices, practitioner insight, podcasts, videos, and visual storytelling front and center.
The Vulnpocalypse Isn’t Your Problem
But it might be your company’s problem.
One Sector, A Million+ Data Environments
What a nonprofit collects, captures, manages, and is responsible for protecting isn't uniform. And in many cases, the sensitivity of that data maps directly back to their unique mission in ways that should fundamentally shape how we approach security for these organizations.
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Identity SecuritySaaS
ShinyHunters' Charter Breach Exposes the Identity-to-SaaS Gap
A voice phishing call compromised one identity. Millions of records followed. The Charter breach is the latest evidence that the gap between identity security and SaaS governance isn't a gap enterprises can afford to keep ignoring.
Medical Device SecurityVulnerability Management
Highlights from CYBR.HAK.CON. 2026
Among the topics: Cognitive warfare and medical device mayhem.
Medical Device Security
CYBR.HAK.CON. 2026: The Ghosts Still Haunt the Machine - Lessons From The Therac-25 Affair
Sean Satterlee’s CYBR.HAK.CON. presentation used the deadly Therac-25 radiation overdoses to expose how modern connected medical devices still repeat many of the same dangerous cybersecurity and safety failures.
Cognitive Warfare
CYBR.HAK.CON. 2026: A Brief Introduction to Cognitive Warfare
Stephen Cravey’s “A Brief Introduction to Cognitive Warfare” explores how modern influence operations exploit human psychology, identity, emotion, and social dynamics much like attackers exploit vulnerabilities in technical systems.
Incident Response
Manufacturing: NIST Wants to Upgrade the Incident Response Playbook
NIST releases its first concrete OT recovery playbook and it looks nothing like an IT runbook. The document is formally aimed at manufacturing, but the problem it addresses is structural across every operational technology environment where stopping production has physical consequences.
Cybersecurity Culture
Shall We Play a Game? WOPR a Special Guest at CYBR.HAK.CON.
A replica of WOPR, built for HouSecCon 2015's WarGames theme, has become a fan favorite at CYBR.SEC.Community events -- a fixture that taps into the hacker nostalgia and cautionary spirit of the 1983 film.
CYBR.HAK.CON.Penetration Testing
Inside CYBR.HAK.CON.: A New Grassroots Cybersecurity Conference for Ethical Hackers
Built by the team behind HOU.SEC.CON. (now CYBR.SEC.CON.) and partnered with renowned penetration tester Phil Wylie, CYBR.HAK.CON. aims to reconnect cybersecurity conferences with their grassroots hacker culture through hands-on training, community collaboration, and practitioner-first experiences.
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CYBR.HAK.CAST Episode 14: Tim Medin
In this episode, hosts Michael Farnum and Phillip Wylie sit down with penetration tester and Red Siege founder Tim Medin to talk about turning attacker tactics into practical defensive wins.
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OT Resilience in Action: A Framework for Utilities
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CYBR.HAK.CAST Episode 13: Winn Schwartau
Winn Schwartau argues that the biggest threat facing defenders isn’t just technical, but cognitive: overwhelming information flows that push humans into “mental DDoS.” He has introduced the concept of “critical ignoring” as a prerequisite to critical thinking.
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Enhancing OT Cybersecurity in Maritime Environments
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The Executive Imperative: Acting Decisively When You Need to Defend OT
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Agentic AI in OT: The Ultimate Insider Threat
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From Static Controls to Dynamic Risk: How OT Cybersecurity Risk is Finally Becoming Actionable
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