Infosec Hamilton – 2025 Year in Review

On December 8 2025, we held our last Infosec Hamilton event of 2025. We did something different for this session – instead of one speaker, we opened the floor for “lightning talks” – Each person had up to 15 minutes to share something Infosec related with the rest of the group. We had great turnout and lots of participation.

Here are the speakers and their session titles:

Brandon Aubie: “The Kaminsky Attack of 2008” or “It’s always DNS.”
Todd Dow: “InfoSec Hamilton 2025 Year in Review”
Danielle Morris: “Cybercrime Supply Chain”
Othman Alamoudi: “Securing Google Drive”
Don Mallory: “Setting Rules of Engagement for Information Sharing”
Elena Kolomeets: “My InfoSec story”

And, we also had a year in review discussion where we recapped some of the great things that happened in 2025. We also conducted a live poll where we asked the group to provide their feedback on the year. Here’s a summary of the discussion:

2025 sessions:

Date	Topic	Speaker	# of Attendees
February	Hello From the Dumpster Fire: Real Examples of Artificially Generated Malware, Disinformation and Scam Campaigns	Ashley Jess	57
March	ShadowHQ’s origins and growth story	Nick Scozzaro	54
April	The State of AI Security in 2025	Todd Dow	42
May	Email: From SMTP to WTF	Brandon Aubie	56
June	An intro to Vulnerability Management and the history of CVSS, through to v4.0A	Ali Salari	39
July	Cisco XDR hands on lab night!	Todd Dow	46
August	Smart Building Red Teaming	Amir Hosseinpour	50
September	Software Defined Radio & Cybersecurity	Frank Coburn	44
October	Hunting the Ghost in the Shell – Case studies of Insider Risk	Don Mallory	42
November	What to Expect When You’re Expecting Pentesters	Andrew Wade	44
December	Lightning Talks	Group	37