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Media information

Two days of security research, hands-on hacking and hacker culture in Tokyo. The essentials for planning your coverage.

WHEN19–20 November 2026

Thursday & Friday · 10:00–18:00 JST (UTC+9)

WHEREAkihabara UDX Conference

South Wing, 6F · Tokyo, Japan

ORGANIZERTenguSec ↗

Tokyo’s grassroots hacker community

PLAN YOUR TWO DAYS

The timetable

All times are Japan Standard Time (JST / UTC+9). Select a talk title to read the session details.

Day one / 2026Thursday, 19 November
Time (JST)Session
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TenguSec Founder Tripp/cicada

Opening Remarks

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VerticalSideways

Multi-Modal Steganography Attack Chaining: Human-in-the-Oops

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Kameron Bettridge / Clovis Mint

Prompt to ATO: Hacking Meta for $150K (And How You Can Too)

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Lunch / Villages / CTF

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Marouane El Moufid / Eun0us

From Mono Firmware to Modular Research Platform: How Espilon Evolved from Red Team Tool to Community-Driven Security

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Ricardo Fradique

Hacking a Space Mission: From Telemetry to Code Execution

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Yasser Ali (Meta)

Client-Side Exploitation Gadgets at Meta in the AI Era

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Kazuya Moritaka

Ground Zero Day: Creating Earthquakes Like Whitebeard

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BusesCanFly

Hacking Rovers Worldwide for Fun and Absolutely No Profit

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Erwan Cordier / biero-el-corridor

Warez for OT software: a dive into ICS software file security and the black market surrounding it.

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Day-One Wrap-Up / Community Notices

Day two / 2026Friday, 20 November
Time (JST)Session
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TenguSec Community

Day-Two Opening

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Oksana Verbytska

Ghost Signals Over Kherson: Drone Telemetry, Cyber Targeting, and the New Geometry of War

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Anastasia Kovalchuk / Yuki

Black Sea Packet Loss: Cyber Warfare, Maritime Systems, and the Infrastructure Nobody Patches

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Lunch / Villages / CTF

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BobDaHacker

Fake Devs, Real Threat: Disrupting the DPRK IT Worker Pipeline

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Andrew Strutt / r0d3nt

Hunting Hackers in Two Worlds: From Wild to Wire

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Goku & Kalev Anri Kalda / kalevak

Ghosts in the Water Closet: Hacking IR in Smart Bidets

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TenguCon Rant Session

Open-ended community session

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Joe Grand (Kingpin), Iceman & YTCracker (Amazon Element55)

The Triforce — Joint Keynote

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CTF Awards / Closing Remarks

FIND THE VENUE

Akihabara, sixth floor.

Use the South Wing route to UDX Conference on 6F. The venue’s official guides below show the approach from JR Akihabara Station and the conference floor.

4-14-1 Sotokanda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 101-0021, Japan
South Wing, 6F · Tokyo, Japan
Open in Google Maps ↗
Official illustrated route from JR Akihabara Station to UDX Conference, via the South Wing and the sixth floor. Open the original PDF for detail.
Station-to-venue access guideOpen original PDF ↗
Official UDX Conference sixth-floor plan showing rooms A–F, circulation areas and elevators. Open the original PDF for detail.
Official 6F floor mapOpen original PDF ↗

Maps: UDX Akihabara Space. These are venue reference plans; they do not assign TenguCon stages, booths or interview areas.

CAMERAS & RECORDING

Filming permissions

Filming and photography are allowed with speaker and attendee consent. Get consent from the people you plan to record, including speakers, interviewees and identifiable attendees.

  • Confirm consent for the specific talk, interview or village demonstration you want to record.
  • Check before capturing screens, badges, personal information or demonstrations. Follow any restrictions communicated by organizers and session hosts.
  • Contact the organizers to coordinate interviews, larger camera setups, audio recording or livestream plans.

Respect anyone who declines to be recorded or asks you to stop. A speaker’s consent does not cover other attendees.

tripp@tengusec.tokyo ↗

CONVERSATIONS TO REQUEST

Interview options

Tell us who you would like to speak with and what you are covering. All interviews depend on the participant’s agreement and availability; the program listing is not a confirmed interview booking.

Organizers & community

Requests for Tripp/cicada and the TenguSec team: the event, the Tokyo hacker community and the ideas behind this year’s gathering.

Speakers & researchers

Requests connected to a published talk, research topic or the Triforce keynote. The organizers can help coordinate an introduction.

Village hosts & badge creators

Requests for a conversation or an agreed demonstration around hardware, RF, space security or the conference badges.

Include your outlet or channel, name, topic, preferred participants, date/time in JST, interview length, language, format and deadline. Mention camera/audio equipment, crew size and any livestream plans.

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Organizer contact

For media enquiries, filming arrangements and interview requests.

Gerald “Tripp” Roybal III / cicada

TenguSec founder · TenguCon organizer

tripp@tengusec.tokyo

Updated 9 November 2026 · All program times are JST (UTC+9).