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🔒 Join Microsoft Security at Ignite 2026 in San Francisco or online from November 17–20, 2026, with a Security Pre-Day on November 16. Hear executive keynotes, get hands-on with agentic security solutions, attend expert meetups and MISA partner demos, and participate in sessions across four security themes covering agentic SOCs, securing deployed agents, foundational Zero Trust practices, and data protection.

🔍 Tomorrow BleepingComputer hosts a live webinar, "Breach autopsy: How fast-growing companies are breached through Google Workspace," featuring Material Security. Speakers Rajan Kapoor and Rick Fitzgerald will analyze real, publicly documented Google Workspace breaches, focusing on incidents where social engineering and malicious OAuth apps enabled access. The session will cover initial access, the critical first hours of response, and which Google Workspace controls deliver the most value for lean security teams.

🎯 This live webinar on September 23, 2026, explores what happens in the first hours after a Google Workspace breach and how early decisions shape outcomes. Speakers from Material Security and Fireside Consulting LLC will analyze real, documented incidents where attackers used social engineering and malicious OAuth apps. The session focuses on rapid containment, forensic triage, and practical controls for fast-growing companies with lean security teams.

🗓️ This notice lists Bruce Schneier's scheduled speaking engagements in late 2026. It includes an online League of Women Voters event on September 22, CanSecWest in Vancouver September 30–October 1, a Bentley University talk on "Free Speech and the Preservation of Democracy" on October 6, and a session at ATTENTION: Democracy, Rebuilt in Montreal on October 21. The previously announced Elevate Festival talk has been canceled.

🔒 On September 23, 2026, BleepingComputer and Material Security will host a live webinar, "Breach autopsy: How fast-growing companies are breached through Google Workspace," examining two incidents involving malicious OAuth apps and social engineering. Speakers Rajan Kapoor and Rick Fitzgerald will explain how attackers persuade users to grant app permissions and how that access can be abused. The session will cover detection, response, and prioritized security controls for resource-constrained organizations.

📢 This live webinar on September 23, 2026, explores how fast-growing companies are breached via Google Workspace and what practical steps lean security teams can take. Speakers Rajan Kapoor of Material Security and Rick Fitzgerald of Fireside Consulting will analyze real, publicly documented incidents, focusing on social engineering, forgotten third-party integrations, and first-hour response decisions. The discussion emphasizes prioritized, realistic controls over long checklists.

🧭 The Black Hat USA 2026 conference centered on AI's influence across cybersecurity, featuring keynotes and panels with senior US officials who debated regulation, innovation, and national leadership. Speakers including the White House National Cyber Director and representatives from CISA and the FBI discussed rapid vulnerability discovery enabled by AI, industry collaboration, and the need for prioritization. Presentations highlighted incidents such as the OpenAI–Hugging Face case and emphasized that AI systems act through human-set tasks and controls, underscoring accountability and governance requirements.

🛡️ Check Point Research presented four technical talks at Black Hat USA 2026 exposing trusted layers attackers abuse. Researchers dissected a decade-old Windows kernel driver in Defender, found post-injection exploitation paths across major AI agent frameworks, developed a pipeline to decompile compiled V8 bytecode malware, and identified sandbox escape vulnerabilities in Cloudflare’s Code Mode. Each talk highlighted how trusted or overlooked components can be repurposed offensively.

📢 Next Tuesday, August 11, Cisco Talos Incident Responders will host a 30-minute, unrecorded webinar reviewing high-impact incidents from Q2 2026. The session will candidly cover timelines, containment, and remediation efforts rather than repeating the published trends report. Designed for security professionals at all levels, it emphasizes strategic takeaways, business impact, and enough technical detail to inform discussions. Registration is required to attend this exclusive briefing.

🔒 Black Hat remains a vital forum for practitioners despite commercialization; attendees should avoid flashy distractions and focus on substantive technical content. Key topics to prioritize this year include agentic AI exploitation, modern APT infrastructure, AI-powered vulnerability discovery, threat hunting in the AI era, and real-world adversary AI use. Seek sessions and case studies that emphasize operational controls, behavioral detection, and collaboration across security, IT, and development teams.

🎤 Talos will be present at Black Hat USA 2026 across the Cisco and Splunk booths to discuss threat research, incident response, and how Talos powers the Cisco security portfolio. The team will deliver lightning talks, a Main Stage keynote on securing enterprises in the age of AI agents, and hands-on workshops demonstrating AI-driven SOC workflows and the Foundry Security Spec. Attendees can also learn how Talos is embedded across Cisco products and view the new “Where Protection Starts” video.

🗓️ This page lists Bruce Schneier's scheduled speaking engagements for mid to late 2026, including virtual and in-person appearances. Events include the Policy-Relevant Privacy Research Workshop (Calgary) on July 20, the Boston Leadership Exchange on July 22, and several conferences in Las Vegas, Anaheim, and Vancouver with dates in August through October. Specific talk times for several events are noted as TBD and the list is maintained on this page.

📅 This page lists Bruce Schneier’s confirmed speaking engagements in June–October 2026, including keynotes, panels, and talks across Europe and North America. Events include Cybernation 2026 in Berlin, the Potsdam Conference at Hasso Plattner Institut, panels in Vienna, a talk at Czech Technical University in Prague, the Nuremberg Digital Festival, and CanSecWest in Vancouver. Times and formats vary; one panel is via Zoom.

🛡️ Semperis will host "Enter the War Room: A Tabletop Experience" at Infosecurity Europe 2026, a 90-minute red team vs blue team simulation based on real retailer ransomware incidents. The immersive exercise places participants in a fast-moving, multi-stage cyber-attack on a fictional supermarket, testing detection, decision-making, communication and executive escalation. Attendees will work with reformed hackers and defenders from government, law enforcement and industry to identify blind spots and sharpen crisis playbooks.

🛡️ The Cybersecurity Communities of Support (CyCOS) pilot, launched by academics from UK universities, is expanding from two to seven small peer-led communities to help SMEs improve cyber resilience. The program combines webinars, AMAs, an online support platform and shared resources, and will transition operational leadership to the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec). New communities are being founded by volunteer SME facilitators and supported by a Community Toolkit to ensure replicability.

🚀 Infosecurity Europe 2026 will introduce a new Cyber Startup competition and a dedicated Cyber Startups Zone, giving five emerging companies a platform to present technologies and connect with potential customers, partners and investors. The live pitching event takes place on Tuesday 2 June and will be judged by industry figures including Shlomo Kramer alongside CISOs Mun Valiji and Kirsty Kelly. The winner receives a prize package that includes a free exhibition stand at Infosecurity Europe 2027, PR support from Origin Communications and a brand workshop from Dusted.

🔒 At Pwn2Own Berlin (May 14–16), researchers uncovered 47 zero-day vulnerabilities and shared almost $1.3 million in prize money, with Devcore taking $505,000. The enterprise-focused competition targeted AI databases, coding agents, LLM toolchains and NVIDIA products. Notable wins included exploits against VMware ESXi, Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and a sandbox escape on Microsoft Edge. ZDI will disclose the findings to vendors, who have 90 days to patch.

🏆 The Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 contest at OffensiveCon (May 14–16) awarded security researchers $1,298,250 for exploiting 47 zero-day vulnerabilities across browsers, enterprise apps, servers, virtualization, containers, LLMs and local privilege escalation. Competitors earned $523,000 on day one, $385,750 on day two, and $389,500 on day three. DEVCORE topped the leaderboard with $505,000 and 50.5 Master of Pwn points; Cheng‑Da Tsai secured the highest single payout of $200,000 for an Exchange RCE chain.

🔒 During day two of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 at OffensiveCon (May 14–16), competitors earned $385,750 by exploiting 15 unique zero-day vulnerabilities across enterprise products, including Windows 11, Microsoft Exchange, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Cheng-Da Tsai (Orange Tsai) earned $200,000 by chaining three bugs to achieve remote code execution as SYSTEM on Exchange, while other researchers demonstrated privilege escalations on Windows and RHEL and exploited the NVIDIA Container Toolkit. The AI category also saw multiple successes against coding agents such as Cursor AI and OpenAI Codex. Under Pwn2Own rules all targets run the latest patched OS versions and vendors receive a 90-day disclosure window to issue fixes.

🎤 Bruce Schneier lists his upcoming speaking engagements through July 2026, including virtual and European events. He will give a virtual talk on “The Security of Trust in the Age of AI” for the Financial Women’s Association of New York at 6:00 PM ET on May 21, 2026. He is scheduled to speak at the Potsdam Conference on National Cybersecurity (evening of June 24), the Digital Humanism Conference in Vienna on June 26, and the Nuremberg Digital Festival on July 1. The list is maintained on this page.