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All times are in "Honolulu Time" (HST).

If you are unable to attend in-person, all talks will be live-streamed via our YouTube channel.


Trainings
December 2nd (Monday) - 4th (Wednesday)
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Trainings occur prior to the conference, from December 2nd - 4th. They are separate from general conference attendance (and require separate registration and payment).

More information on the conference trainings can be found on the training page.

Training Room: Lahaina 1
10:00 am - 05:00 pm

"Threat Hunting macOS" (Jaron Bradley)
Training Room: Lahaina 2
10:00 am - 05:00 pm

Training Room: Lahaina 3
10:00 am - 05:00 pm

"iOS Threat Hunting" (Matthias Frielingsdorf)
Training Room: Lahaina 4
10:00 am - 05:00 pm


Talks
December 5th (Thursday) - 6th (Friday)
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Conference talks will be presented from December 5th - 6th.
All talks are presented in the Monarchy Ballroom (or can be freely live-streamed here).


Thursday, Dec. 5th
09:00 am - 09:50 am (50 minutes)
Registration
Come pick up your conference badge. (Note: All that is needed is the email address you registered with).

10:00 am - 10:10 am (10 minutes)
Welcome and opening remarks

10:10 am - 10:50 am (40 minutes)
"Sweet QuaDreams or Nightmare before Christmas? Dissecting an iOS 0-Day" (Christine Fossaceca & Bill Marczak)

10:55 am - 11:20 am (25 minutes)
"macOS Stealers: Stealing Your Coins, Cookies and Keychains" (Maddie Stewart & Suweera De Souza)

11:25 am - 11:50 am (25 minutes)
"Swift Reversing in 2024 - It's not so bad :)" (Christopher Lopez)

11:50 am - 12:30 pm (40 minutes)
"Trace the Base: Unraveling the iPhone’s Baseband Architecture to Defend Against Cellular Attacks" (Lukas Arnold)

12:30 pm - 02:00 pm (90 minutes)
Lunch

02:00 pm - 02:40 pm (40 minutes)
"Stealer Crossing: New Horizons" (Stuart Ashenbrenner & Alden Schmidt)

02:40 pm - 03:05 pm (25 minutes)
"Patch Different on *OS" (John McIntosh)

03:10 pm - 03:35 pm (25 minutes)
"Mach-O in Three Dimensions" (Jaron Bradley)

03:35 pm - 04:00 pm (25 minutes)
"Broken isolation - draining your credentials from popular macOS password managers" (Wojciech Reguła)

04:00 pm - 04:15 pm (15 minutes)
Afternoon Break

04:15 pm - 04:40 pm (25 minutes)
"iDecompile: Writing a Decompiler for iOS Applications"(Laurie Kirk)

04:40 pm - 05:05 pm (25 minutes)
"Endless Exploits: The Saga of a macOS Vulnerability Exploited Seven Times" (Mickey Jin)

05:05 pm - 05:20 pm (15 minutes)
"How to use ML to detect bad?" (Martina Tivadar)
05:20 pm - 05:35 pm (15 minutes)
"Unraveling Time: Understanding Time Formats in iOS Sysdiagnose for Security Forensics" (Lina Wilske)

07:00 pm - 09:00 pm (120 minutes)
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09:30 pm - 11:30 pm
#OBTS Capture the Flag (CTF)
Maui Suites
Come participate in the Apple-themed CTF event and win prizes.
Note: To participate (in this limited-space) event, you must register here!

Friday, Dec. 6th
10:00 am - 10:10 am (10 minutes)
Welcome and opening remarks

10:10 am - 10:50 am (40 minutes)
"Triangulating TrueType Fonts On macOS: Reconstructing CVE-2023-41990" (Aleksandar Nikolic )

10:55 am - 11:20 am (25 minutes)
"Apple's not so Rapid Security Response" (Mykola Grymalyuk)

11:25 am - 11:50 am (25 minutes)
"iPhone Backup Forensics" (Kinga Kieczkowska)

11:50 am - 12:30 pm (40 minutes)
"A Better Way - YARA-X, Mach-O Feature Extraction, and Malware Similarity" (Jacob Latonis & Greg Lesnewich)

12:30 pm - 02:00 pm (90 minutes)
Lunch

02:00 pm - 02:40 pm (40 minutes)
"Tripwires in the Dark: Developing Behavior Detections for macOS" (Colson Wilhoit)

02:40 pm - 03:05 pm (25 minutes)
"Mac, where’s my Bootstrap?. What is the bootstrap server and how can you talk to it?" (Brandon Dalton & Fitzl Csaba)

03:05 pm - 03:30 pm (25 minutes)
"From Theory to Practise - Let’s find an iOS Commercial Spyware Sample" (Matthias Frielingsdorf)

03:35 pm - 04:00 pm (25 minutes)
"A Little Less Malware, A Little More Context: Using LLMs to Detect Malicious macOS Activity" (Kimo Bumanglag & Joseph Millman)

04:00 pm - 04:15 pm (15 minutes)
Afternoon Break

04:15 pm - 04:40 pm (25 minutes)
"Unveiling the Apple CVE-2024-40834 - A "shortcut" to the bypass road" (Marcio Almeida)

04:40 pm - 05:05 pm (25 minutes)
"Mirror Mirror: Restoring Reflective Code Loading on macOS" (Patrick Wardle)

05:05 pm - 05:30 pm (25 minutes)
Finale (+ prizes!)

06:00 pm - 08:00 pm (120 minutes)
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