SteelCon

SteelCon is a family friendly hacker conference in Sheffield. Next event is July 2026.

@hacknotcrime Advocate

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With Easter coming up quick it is time for a date announcement.

1 March - CFP and call for crew opens
1 April - Pre talk announcement tickets
3 April CFP and CFC closes
~ 20 April speakers confirmed
~ 24 April main ticket drop

Links and stuff coming closer to the dates.

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Happy birthday to co-flounder @nez_ze_nerd

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We are trying to track down the owner of this car.

Is it yours or do you know who it belongs to?

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@dr0idAndy That wasn't even recorded, the speaker wasn't feeling good so asked for it not to be.

It will be repeated in the future so catch it when you can, it was a good talk.

Cc @DI_Security

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Want a Monday morning treat?

Our videos are now online:

https://t.co/RqQdYmPCt8

We are missing a couple which will be added soon, and @ZephrFish is keeping his private.

Enjoy!

Thanks @Ministraitor

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@SynStalker @EmmaOpheliacPR It's odd if yours doesn't, I'd complain to quality control, but I think she might slap me

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@SynStalker @EmmaOpheliacPR They should, try clicking the middle of it, it's got a hair clip thing inside

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@SynStalker @EmmaOpheliacPR I assume you've noticed they click

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@SynStalker They were all hand made for us by @EmmaOpheliacPR with all the cash we have her for it going to a local dog shelter.

[Lou on Holiday @SynStalker]

This year's favourite swag item from @Steel_Con is my pickles. Theia has stolen my other one, but how freaking cute is this?!

[Scriptmonkey_ @scriptmonkey_]

@Steel_Con Happy Yorkshire day!!! 😊

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@Steel_Con *checks ticket site* 😅

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@scriptmonkey_ Hmm, you know what....

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Happy Yorkshire day everyone

[Pen Test Partners @PenTestPartners]

You can watch Aaron’s full SteelCon talk here:
📌 https://t.co/PpOwhuFqZs

[Pen Test Partners @PenTestPartners]

A couple of weeks ago, @thackeraaron was at @Steel_Con talking about a piece of hardware most people probably wouldn’t give a second thought.

An unbranded £10 4G USB modem.

The slightly odd part is that some of these devices come with 512MB of memory. Once Aaron started pulling them apart, he found that many were effectively headless Android phones hiding inside a USB stick.

His talk looked at how they can be rooted, reflashed, and loaded with custom firmware. With some work, an ordinary looking modem could be made to inject keystrokes, exfiltrate data, or carry command and control traffic.

And, because “Can it run DOOM?” wasn’t enough, Aaron reflashed one of the modems to run the game, then made it present itself to the host computer as a webcam.

Open the camera feed and, instead of anything remotely useful, you get DOOM!

Entirely necessary research, obviously.

#SteelCon #HardwareHacking #CyberSecurity

[myexploit2600 @myexploit2600]

My @Steel_Con talk on compromising hybrid domains is now live!

The talk explains real-world attack paths spanning:
Active Directory
Microsoft Entra ID
Azure & M365

All based on real techniques I perform on authorised red team engagements.

https://t.co/LiFRCkuaom

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Slightly late to the list, but just as entertaining as the rest, we've just added @MDisraeli's talk "Where Do We Go From Here? Towards A Philosophy Of Cyber Security"

https://t.co/GbvAXaKeeW

[Dan Raywood @DanRaywood]

A week on from @Steel_Con I did a couple of takeaway blogs of talks that stood out to me.

https://t.co/ZqCSk3VzI0

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@_BlackW0lf @EmmaOpheliacPR @GlennPegden what did you do?

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Cash from the Swag Stall donated to Purple House to say thanks for helping Thomas.

Thanks to everyone who bought something and put cash in the pot.