Highlights from CYBR.HAK.CON. 2026
Among the topics: Cognitive warfare and medical device mayhem.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AI Scanning's Hidden Tax: $128K in Triage Before a Fix
AI security scanners promise to reduce AppSec workload, but Contrast Labs' testing shows they systematically multiply it, turning a $315 API fee into an estimated $128,000 triage burden, before fixing a single vulnerability.
Cognitive Warfare, An 18-Year-Old NGINX Flaw, Pen-Testing Theater And Why the Vulnpocalypse Isn't the CISO's Problem
But first: About CYBR.SEC.Media 2.0!
NGINX Rift: Eighteen Years in Plain Sight
An 18-year-old heap overflow in NGINX's rewrite engine is now under active exploitation. Patches exist, but attackers moved faster than most organizations can respond.
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.
Cognitive Warfare Has Entered the SOC. What it is, How to Respond
Information overload, cognitive warfare, and nonstop digital noise are turning human attention into a vulnerable attack surface.
Pentesting Theater: When the Pentest Report Lands, and the Vulnerabilities Remain
Organizations spend real money on penetration testing and too often walk away afterwards with the same vulnerabilities they started with. The test happened. The report landed. The checkbox got checked. Nothing significant has changed.
5 Foundational Cybersecurity Mental Health Articles Every Security Leader Should Read
From SOC burnout and alert fatigue to resilience and psychological sustainability, these five cybersecurity mental health articles helped shape one of the industry’s most important conversations.
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.
This Week in Cybersecurity: CYBR.HAK.CON Preview, the Death of the Level 1 SOC, and Mental Health Resources for Security Teams
In this week's CYBR.SEC.Media newsletter: preview of CYBR.HAK.CON, why traditional Level 1 SOC operations are breaking down under modern threat pressure, and where cybersecurity professionals can find mental health support built for the realities of the job.