TurkuSec January Meetup

Welcome to the January meetup of TurkuSec! Everybody who is interested in information security and related topics are welcome to attend. Drinks and snacks will be provided.

The meetup is hosted by TUAS/TUAMK (we are looking for a sponsor)

Date: 30.01.2026 (Friday)
Time: 17:40 – Onwards
Venue: TUAS/TUAMK ICT-City. Teoriatila muunto ICT_C2033_2034 (at floor 2) (Joukahaisenkatu 3, Turku)

Schedule

17:40 – Doors Open
18:00 – Welcome, practical info, words from our hosts/sponsors
18:10 – “Bad dreams of a white hat hacker” by Alexander Paltsev
Description: Imagine being a white hacker whose target was severely hacked right after the security audit you conducted. Looks suspicious ha? A large company was encrypted by criminals several month after the audit that revealed critically low level of security. This story is about the pentest findings, the incident and its investigation.
18:50 – Break
19:00 – “Privacy Preserving Federated Dataset Distillation” by Mert Cihangiroglu⁩
20:30 – Pystyy Vetää

Speakers:

Alexander Paltsev: Cyber Security Expert, White Hat hacker
Mert Cihangiroglu⁩: PhD Researcher at University of Pavia, Visiting Researcher at the University of Turku

TurkuSec ry Autumn General Meeting + Pikkujoulu

TurkuSec ry is hereby calls to its Autumn general meeting, which will be held on 19th December 2025 at 17.30.

The meeting will be held in hybrid form.

For physical participation: Saapaskallio 2, 20900 Turku.

The agenda is as follows:

1. Opening of the meeting
2. Election of the chairperson, the secretary, two examiners of the minutes, and if needed, two vote counters.
3. Assessing the legality and quorum of the meeting
4. Establishing the agenda and procedure of the meeting
5. Review of the past year
6. Adopting a plan and a revenue and expenditure estimate and setting the membership fees for the next calendar year
7. Election of chairperson and other members of the board
8. Election of one or two auditors and their deputies.
9. Other matters
10. Closing the meeting

A member wishing to bring matters to the general meeting must inform the board in writing no later than one week before the meeting so that the matter can be discussed.

TurkuSec ry Board
Turku
05.12.2025

Pikkujoulu will be organised in the same physical location as the Autumn General meeting.

Pikkujoulu Registration Link: https://events.turkusec.fi/pikkujoulu25/

If you are planning to go to the sauna, bring a towel with you.

From Cyber Awareness to Resilience

This lecture gives you practical tools to build a culture of security awareness and resilience in your organization.

What will you learn?

• Recognize the importance of human behavior and awareness in cybersecurity.
• Apply practical models like the SANS Maturity Model and COM-B to improve security culture.
• Identify gaps in your organization’s preparedness and design targeted awareness measures.
• This lecture provides you with practical tools to implement risk-based baseline information security practices in compliance with NIS2.

Registration link: https://events.turkusec.fi/tkuseclecture1-25/

Date: 27.11.2025
Time: 17:00 – 19:00
Venue: EDU_1002, Turku University of Applied Sciences, EduCity (Joukahaisenkatu 7, Turku)

Speaker

Jani Ekqvist – Senior Lecturer at Turku University of Applied Sciences

Pia Satopää – Senior Lecturer Information Security and Cybersecurity, Turku University of Applied Sciences

TurkuSec x W4CFI November Meetup

Welcome to the TurkuSec November meetup! As usual, we will host two speakers. But the meetup will be not that usual. We will be visited by our friends from Women4Cyber Finland! Everybody who is interested in information security and related topics are welcome to attend. Drinks and snacks will be provided.

The meetup is hosted by TUAS/TUAMK and powered by Silverskin Information Security Oy!

The talks will be streamed on our Twitch channel: twitch.tv/turkusec

MEETUP REGISTRATION: https://events.turkusec.fi/tkusecnovmeet25/

NOTE: Please cancel your registration if you will not be able to attend.

Date: 14.11.2025 (Friday)
Time: 17:40 – Onwards
Venue: TUAS/TUAMK ICT-City. Teoriatila muunto ICT_C2033_2034 (at floor 2) (Joukahaisenkatu 3, Turku)

Schedule:

17:40 – Doors Open
18:00 – Welcome, practical info, words from our sponsors
18:10“How to fight eldritch network protocols” by k4m1
Description: Reverse engineering- & finding 0days in proprietary network protocols
18:50 – Break
19:00“Social Engineering 101 revisited or how the criminals are exploiting scientifically proven methods to fool us and how to recognise and combat them” by Riku Juurikko
20:30 – Pystyy Vetää

Speakers:
k4m1: Unlike other cats who just prefer to sit in boxes, I accidentally find 0days in them.
Riku Juurikko: Riku works as Head of Preparedness & Community at Elisa. He’s active member of cyber community in Finland being involved with HelSec, Next Gen Hack FI, Women4Cyber Finland.

UTU Student & TurkuSec Excursion to F-Secure & WithSecure

Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 11:00–20:00
Departure: From Vesilinnantie 3, 20500 Turku at 11:00, transportation provided by UTU
Locations: WithSecure & F-Secure HQ, Helsinki

Registration link: https://forms.gle/qVYkmuxBhuUXtjzk9

About the Event

F-Secure is thrilled to invite University of Turku Cyber Security students on an exclusive cybersecurity field trip to Helsinki, hosted in collaboration with Turkusec, F-Secure and WithSecure!

This is a rare opportunity to:

Explore the world-famous Malware Museum at WithSecure (14:00–16:00)

Visit the F-Secure headquarters (16:30–20:00) and meet professionals working on cutting-edge security challenges

Network with industry experts and fellow cybersecurity enthusiasts

Travel Information

We’ll be departing from Turku at 11:00 and returning later in the evening. Transportation will be arranged for registered participants.

Disarray pre-event

TurkuSec and Lyyti welcome everyone who is interested in information security and related topics.
We’ll have two speakers at the event.
https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/TurkuSec-Meetup

Date: 24.10.2025 (Friday)
Time: 17:45 – Onwards
Venue: Lyyti Oy (Yliopistonkatu 29B, 4th floor)

Be sure to register as maximum attendance is 80 participants.
Edible and drinkable refreshments will be provided.

Agenda

17:45 – Doors Open
18:00 – Welcome by Lyyti, practicalities
18:15 – “Your software security metrics are sh*t but so are mine – creating meaningful metrics for software security” by Johannes Kossila
19:00 – “EU’s active war against data-privacy” by Markus Hölsä
20:00 – Pystyy Vetää

Hacker Hike Kurjenrahka

Let’s spend the last day of Summer outside! We will travel to the Kurjenrahka National Park, that is just outside of Turku. We will have a nice walk (no death marches, we promise) and a picnic on a campsite. The routes at the national park are suitable for families/kids, it’s ok to bring kids.

TurkuSec will provide with some grilling food and non alcoholic beverages, and you can bring your own food as well. The national park is easily reachable by cars and public transportation (Föli bus 23 from Turku).

Date: 31 August 2025
Time: 12:00 – 16:00
Meeting point: 8850 Kuhankuonon P-alue (Föli bus stop/National Park gate)

REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/neRh3s2rY3NA4geCA

Föli Bus Route Information: https://www.foli.fi/en/see-and-experience/kuhankuono
Föli Buses Timetable: https://cms.foli.fi/sites/default/files/documents-2025-06/linja-23-kuhankuono_0.pdf
Information about the Kurjenrahka National Park: https://www.luontoon.fi/en/destinations/kurjenrahka-national-park

If any questions, contact Shamil or ask in the Signal/Discord.

TurkuSec September Meetup

Welcome to the September meetup of TurkuSec! As usual, we will host two speakers. Everybody who is interested in information security and related topics are welcome to attend. Drinks and snacks will be provided.

The meetup is hosted by TUAS/TUAMK and powered by Walkbase!

The talks will be streamed on our Twitch channel: twitch.tv/turkusec

MEETUP REGISTRATION: https://events.turkusec.fi/tkusecseptmeet25/

Date: 04.09.2025 (Thursday)
Time: 17:40 – Onwards
Venue: TUAS/TUAMK ICT-City. Teoriatila muunto ICT_C2033_2034 (at floor 2) (Joukahaisenkatu 3, Turku)

Schedule:

17:40 – Doors Open
18:00 – Welcome, practical info, words from our sponsors
18:10“Burp Like a Pro – Tips and tricks from the hood” by Anton Lindholm
19:00 – Break
19:10“Rust and Software Defenses Against Physical Fault Injection Attacks — Study of FIH hardening implemented on Caliptra RoT” by Joona Kannisto
20:00 – Pystyy Vetää

Speakers:

Anton Lindholm – Software Developer at Walkbase, a STRATACACHE company
Joona Kannisto – Staff Product Security Engineer at Qualcomm

Kevätkokous Ma 04.09.2025 klo 17.00/Spring Meeting Mon 04.09.2025 17.00

Call to general meeting

Turkusec ry is hereby, in accordance with its charter, called to its spring general meeting, which is to be held on Thursday 4th of September 2025 at 17.00 in hybrid form (online/physical): [sent to members].

The agenda can be found below.

  1. Opening of the meeting
  2. Election of a chairperson, a secretary, two examiners of the minutes and vote two counters for the meeting
  3. Assessing quorum and legality
  4. Establishing the agenda and procedures of the meeting
  5. Presenting the financial report, annual report, and auditor’s statement to the meeting
  6. Considering the financial statements and auditor’s statement, and deciding on the adoption of the financial statements, and considering the discharge from liability of the board and other accountable persons.
  7. Election of an auditor and auditor’s deputy
  8. Any emerging other topics
  9. Closing of the meeting

A member wishing to bring matters to the general meeting must inform the board in writing no later than one week before the meeting so that the matter can be discussed.

TurkuSec ry Board
Turku
20.08.2025

TurkuSec Ninth Birthday Meetup

Welcome to the May meetup and the 9th birthday celebration of TurkuSec! Oh boy, we are already nine years old! During these years we grew our community, registered an association, organized lots of events, became known outside of Turku, inspired other cities to start their own CitySecs, operating under umbrella of DisObey, got a lab, lost the lab and, survived the plague. We’re old, but not obsolete 🙂

The birthday meetup is hosted by TUAS/TUAMK and powered by Olemisen Balanssia!

The talks will be streamed on our Twitch channel: twitch.tv/turkusec

MEETUP REGISTRATION: https://events.turkusec.fi/9thBirthday/

Date: 23.05.2025 (Friday)
Time: 17:40 – Onwards
Venue: TUAS/TUAMK ICT-City. Teoriatila muunto ICT_C2033_2034 (at floor 2) (Joukahaisenkatu 3, Turku)

Schedule:

17:40 – Doors Open
18:00 – Welcome, practical info, words from our sponsors
18:10“RDI activities in TUAS Cyber and Hybrid Resilience research group” by Päivi Mattila
18:40 – Break
19:00“Fantastic Features Used by Few” by Joona Hoikkala
19:30 – Break
19:45“Application of Large Language Models in Cybersecurity: A Systematic Attempt at Sounding Smarter than the Hackers” by Mystery Speaker
20:30 – Pystyy Vetää

Speakers:

Päivi Mattila – Chief Advisor, Leader of Cyber and Hybrid Resilience Research Group, Turku University of Applied Sciences
Joona HoikkalaJoona Hoikkala

Mystery Speaker