BSidesVI

The agenda landed, and five of the twelve talks are about AI or agentic systems, mostly as the attacker rather than the tool. One is a deep dive on Shai-Hulud, the first self-replicating worm npm has actually had, which hit hundreds of packages and, in its later form, wipes the home directory if it cannot find anywhere left to spread. That is the advantage of a volunteer programme over a vendor one: it tracks what happened this year instead of what sells.