§ 03 — Talks

Conference Talks

A selection of presentations at Black Hat, DEF CON, RSA, BSides, and industry summits. From search engine hacking to AI security, a career told through conferences.

4

Black Hat

2+

DEF CON

18+

Total Talks

2026

Decibel RSAC Founder Festival

Every 3 Months, It's a New World: Building Agents That Build Experiences

agentic AIcoding agentsRSA week
Slides
2025

Dark Reading Panel

The Promise and Perils of AI: Navigating Emerging Cyber Threats

2024

HackGDL

Testing LLM Algorithms While AI Tests Us

with Oscar Salazar

AI/LLMkeynote
Video

BSidesSF

LLM Privacy Paradox: Balancing Data Utility with Security

with Aashiq Ramachandran

AI safetyPII leakage
Video Details
2020

Black Hat USA

SmogCloud: Expose Yourself Without Insecurity

with Oscar Salazar

cloudAWS
Slides
2019

BSidesSF

Twist & Shout: Ferris Bueller's Guide to Abuse Domain Permutations

with Kelly Albrink

DNSOSINT
Slides

OWASP AppSec Cali

Pose a Threat: Perceptual Analysis for Bug Hunters

with Oscar Salazar

visual analysisautomation
Video
2015

BSides Pittsburgh

Never Surrender: Reducing Social Engineering Risk

with Christina Camilleri

social engineeringdefense
Slides Video
2014

Black Hat USA

CloudBots: Harvesting Crypto Coins Like a Botnet Farmer

with Oscar Salazar

cloudresearch
Slides
2012

DEF CON 20

Tenacious Diggity: Skinny Dippin' in a Sea of Bing

with Francis Brown

OSINTtools
Slides
2011

Black Hat USA

Pulp Google Hacking: The Next Generation Search Engine Hacking Arsenal

with Fran Brown

OSINTtools
Slides
2010

Black Hat USA / DEF CON 18

Lord of the Bing: Taking Back Search Engine Hacking

with Francis Brown

OSINTtools
Slides
2009

OuterZ0ne

IDS/WAF Evasion Tactics & HTTP 100 Snort Bypass

evasionresearch
Slides
2008

SummerCon

Static Analysis: First Solo Conference Talk

static analysistools
Slides
§ 04.1 — Podcasts

Podcast Appearances

AI Security Podcast

May 2025

The Evolution of Pentesting with AI

How AI is transforming penetration testing. Building autonomous security agents, the evolution from manual to AI-augmented offensive security, and what the future of pentesting looks like.

Host: AI Security Podcast

CyberScoop Safe Mode

May 2025

The 'Iron Man' Suit for Pen Testers

Building agentic AI that augments offensive security professionals. How adaptive AI tools are reshaping penetration testing.

Host: Greg Otto

Forgepoint Capital

Jul 2024

Demystifying AI and LLM Pen Testing

Critical vulnerabilities in LLM applications. RCE, API key exposure, injection in output rendering. What enterprises get wrong.

Host: Kathryn Shih

The Hacker Factory

Jan 2024

From Software Developer to Penetration Tester

Origin story. How 2600 Magazine and hacker culture led from software development into professional penetration testing.

Host: Phillip Wylie

Security Conversations

Dec 2023

The Excitement of AI Solving Security Problems

Scaling pen testing ops, AI as an inflection point comparable to the internet, and the case for equitable global AI access.

Host: Ryan Naraine

The Segment (Illumio)

Jun 2023

Live from RSAC! Test, Verify, Validate

Zero Trust in hybrid environments. OT/IoT vulnerabilities in legacy critical infrastructure. Threat actor categorization.

Host: Raghu Nandakumara

The Official OffSec Podcast

Oct 2022

Continuous Security Testing with Rob Ragan

Building continuous security testing programs. Real bugs found deploying continuous tooling. Career advice for aspiring security professionals.

Host: FalconSpy

§ 04.2 — Videos

Video Gallery

Also presented at
RSA ConferenceBSides San FranciscoBSides PittsburghInterop ITXSecurityWeek SummitAdobe Security SummitBoston Security Meetup