Conference

m0leCon 2025 is the sixth edition of the computer security conference organized by the student team pwnthem0le in collaboration with Politecnico di Torino. The aim is to bring together hackers, security experts, and IT specialists from different backgrounds and skill levels. The conference will feature a variety of talks and presentations, mostly focused on various aspects of offensive security. It will be entirely held in English. Alongside the conference, two CTFs (one for experienced players, with an online qualifier and onsite finals, and one for beginners) and a series of beginner-oriented practical hacking workshops will be held.

Call For Presentations

Call for presentations is open!

We are looking for contributions over all areas of cybersecurity, regarding but not limited to:

  • Web exploitation
  • Network analysis, forensics and incident response
  • Cryptography and cryptographic protocols
  • Software security (binary exploitation, reverse engineering, obfuscation techniques)
  • Hardware and side-channel analysis

We encourage practical works with live demonstrations to the audience.

Submission does not have to be completely original, but works with higher grade of novelty will be preferred. The committee will evaluate the submissions in terms of:

  • Relevance
  • Novelty
  • Completeness
  • Technical content

Every presentation will be 30 or 45 minutes long, including questions. All presentations will be in English.

Call for Presentations will be open from November 25th 2024 to January 31st 2025. Final notification is due to February 15th 2025, but early high quality submissions may receive early notifications.

In order to apply, you should send an email to info@m0lecon.it with subject starting with [CfP m0leCon 2025] and the title of your talk, including

  • Your name/nickname/profile picture (or avatar)
  • Your contacts (including twitter/personal website)
  • Where do you plan to travel from if accepted
  • A preference for the length of the talk (30 or 45 minutes)
  • A short biography (max 1500 chars)
  • The abstract (max 4000 chars)
  • An outline of the talk (max 8000 chars)
  • Any additional material (slides, papers, demos)
  • If the work is novel (otherwise, where and when it was presented/is planned to be presented)

Speaker benefits: travel and accomodation will be provided for up to one speaker, plus a speaker pack with gifts and swag from the conference.

Call For Sponsorships

The call for sponsorship for m0leCon 2025 is open! For more details contact us at info@m0lecon.it.

m0leCon CTF

m0leCon CTF Teaser took place on September 13th 2024. The competition lasted for 24 hours and offered a variety of tasks focused on different aspects of cybersecurity (including but not limited to: cryptography, web exploitation, pwning, reversing) in a jeopardy-style CTF format. At the end of the 24h, the top 10 teams are qualified to play on-site at m0leCon CTF Finals, during the m0leCon Conference.
Click here to see the final scoreboard!

m0leCon Beginner CTF
and workshops

Now at the third edition, the "m0leCon Workshops" consist in a series of 4 free introductory-level workshops on cybersecurity and CTFs, primarily targeted to Politecnico students, but open to all. They will be held on Thursdays, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, in November, on-site at Politecnico di Torino.

During these workshops, basic concepts of software and web exploitation will be shown through interactively solving a set of challenges from the previous editions of m0leCon Beginner CTF and other international entry-level competitions.

(Free) registration is required to attend the workshops.

  • Workshop 1 (07/11/2024): introduction to CTFs and cryptography - Material
  • Workshop 2 (14/11/2024): introduction to Android reverse engineering and Z3 solver - Material
  • Workshop 3 (21/11/2024): introduction to automotive security - Material
  • Workshop 4 (28/11/2024): introduction to web security - Material

After the workshops, on December 14th, a team-based CTF event with beginner-level challenges will be held. Top 3 teams of Politecnico students will be awarded after the competition. The winner will receive an additional prize during the "m0leCon 2025" conference.

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