Heading to Vegas? Meet Port Swigger at Black Hat, BSides, and DEF CON 34.
Summary: PortSwigger is attending Black Hat USA 2026, BSides Las Vegas, and DEF CON 34, with a booth at Black Hat (#5342) and a table at BSides, plus a four-hour Burp extension and Bambda workshop co-presented by Hannah from PortSwigger and Burp Ambassador Tib3rius. James Kettle's Black Hat briefing on Wednesday 5 August covers the HTTP Terminator, an autonomous system he built to invent new attack techniques and compromise live banks, security vendors, and government infrastructure, and he is open-sourcing it; Gareth Heyes follows on Thursday 6 August with CSS and HTML techniques for email account takeover, including deanonymizing users of a privacy-first encrypted email provider.
Key Takeaway: Kettle's autonomous system produced HTTP desync exploits that compromised banks, security vendors, and government infrastructure, and the tool behind them is being released publicly - so the techniques move from a conference talk to anyone's hands.
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