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The story of Le Tour Du Hack - from student-led ambition to a growing cyber security event built around talks, challenges, community, and comunity energy.

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From humble beginnings to bigger and better than ever.

2026

Come Join Us

Le Tour Du Hack returns on May 16 – 17, 2026 for another two days of talks, workshops, hacking challenges, and community. Built by students and supported by a growing cyber community, 2026 is the next chapter in the story.

If 2025 was a milestone year that showed what LTDH could be, 2026 is the invitation to be part of what comes next...

Day 1

Talks, workshops, demos, networking, and community.

Day 2

Capture The Flag, competition energy, and celebrations.

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Le Tour Du Hack 2026 stage shot
2025

The 10th Anniversary Year

Le Tour Du Hack 2025 was a landmark edition. It celebrated 10 years of ENUSEC and showed just how far the event had come - from it's humble beigning as a student gathering, to an ambitious, two-day cyber security event at Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart Campus.

The programme brought together current students, alumni, industry professionals, and cyber security enthusiasts for a full conference day with three parallel tracks, followed by a dedicated Capture The Flag day. It had keynotes, panel discussion, technical deep-dives, career stories, digital forensics, blue team content, hardware and OT topics, and the kind of hallway conversations that make events like this memorable.

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Legendary CTF day

2025 Programme

What Was on the Programme?

The 2025 conference day ran across three tracks with a mixture of keynotes, technical talks, panel discussion, and community-focused sessions. It balanced hard technical content with wider career, wellbeing, and industry conversations.

Opening & Closing Keynotes

The day opened with a keynote from Prof. Bill Buchanan and closed with a keynote from Cary Hendricks, framing the event with perspectives from established voices in cyber security.

Panel Discussion

A featured panel explored “Neurodiversity in Cyber - Superpower vs. Kryptonite?”, bringing together multiple speakers and perspectives around inclusion, work, and different ways of thinking.

Day Two CTF

The second day shifted into competition mode with a full-day Jeopardy-style Capture The Flag, giving teams the chance to test their skills across a range of cyber challenges.

Talk Highlights

Here are some of the talks that helped define the 2025 programme.

Track 1

Ransomware Diaries: Hackers, Hostages and the Price of Panic

Michael Varley

A look into ransomware incidents, attacker behaviour, negotiations, and the consequences for victims.

Track 2

Digital Evidence in the times of Artificial Intelligence

Basil Manoussos

A future-looking discussion on digital evidence, forensics, and how AI is changing the field.

Track 3

They’re Listening, But is it You That’s Talking!

Fraser Wilson

Voice assistants, speaker verification, audio-based attacks, and the weirdness of real-world audio security.

Track 2

Modern Cybersecurity Operations: Responsibilities, Knowledge & Skills

Harry McLaren

Blue team responsibilities, operations knowledge, and the technical and behavioural skills needed in modern cyber roles.

Track 3

From Verification to Infection: ClickFix and Fake CAPTCHA Exploits

Cameron Cottam

A practical deep dive into how attackers weaponise fake CAPTCHA flows and trick users into running malicious commands.

Track 2

Is my OT becoming Rusty?

Eliot Bolster

A look at whether Rust has a place in operational technology and critical industrial systems.

2025 Format

Two Days, Two Different Energies

Day 1 - Conference Day

Day one focused on ideas, learning, and conversation. Attendees could move between three tracks, hear from keynote speakers, attend the panel discussion, and choose from sessions covering ransomware, DFIR, OT, digital evidence, syscalls, deception, cyber careers, audio attacks, and more.

  • • Registration and opening remarks
  • • Opening keynote
  • • Three tracks of talks
  • • Panel discussion
  • • Closing keynote and remarks

Day 2 - Capture The Flag

Day two was all about challenge-solving and competition. The CTF ran as a Jeopardy-style event, welcoming both newcomers and experienced players to tackle a range of tasks and battle for the top of the scoreboard.

  • • Morning registration
  • • CTF competition launch
  • • Pizza lunch pause
  • • Afternoon push to the finish
  • • A strong community competition atmosphere
More photos from 2025
Fraser W delivering his talk at Le Tour Du Hack 2025
The 2024/25 ENUSEC committee at Le Tour Du Hack 2025
Lock picking workshop at Le Tour Du Hack 2025
The opening keynote Le Tour Du Hack 2025

Be Part of the Next Chapter

2025 showed what Le Tour Du Hack could be. 2026 is your chance to experience it.

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