THCon 2025: Toulouse Hacking Convention Toulouse, France, April 10-11, 2025

Conference website	https://thcon.party
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thcon2025
Submission deadline	December 9, 2024

                           Call For Paper

        Toulouse Hacking Convention, 10/11th April, 2025, Toulouse                  

                           https://thcon.party

Created in 2017, Toulouse Hacking Convention is an annual Frenchcybersecurity conference. It usually takes place in Toulouse, France, with anaudience of about 300 attendees (engineers, academics and students). THConis supported by a non-profit organization gathering students and alumniof TLS-SEC information security training.

The Call for Papers gives everyone an opportunity to submit their work and be aspeaker at the 2025 edition in April. If you have carried out originalresearch related to cybersecurity and want to showcase it to the community,please submit your research paper and/or presentation to this CFP. Let usnote that we do accept papers that have already been presented to otherconferences.

Topics

    We accept any submission that may be relevant to a conference on IT Security    and the talk needs to be in English.

• With this in mind, here is a non-exhaustive list of potential topics :
• Exploitation and mitigation techniques
• Reverse engineering (hardware, software, protocols...)
• Vulnerability research (operating systems, smartphones, hypervisors...)
• Malware analysis (sandboxes, reverse engineering...)
• Cryptographic attacks and/or analysis (including protocols)
• Attacks on distributed networks and/or protocols (including proof-of-work    algorithms)
• Techniques seen "in the field" (blue teams, operationals...)
• Technical feedback on well-known incidents and/or notable stories of "#FAIL"
• Your last hack and/or system tampering involving any of the techniques listed above
• Your favorite buzzword and/or upcoming threat (machine learning / big data, cloud, IoT, APT...)
• Any research that brings something to the world of IT security

    Both academic and non-academic speakers are welcome.

Important Dates

    This is the timeline for the 2025 edition of the Toulouse    Hacking Convention:

• October 2024 — The CFP opens
• December 9th 2024 AOE — Submission deadline
• January 15th 2025 — Notification to authors
• April 10/11 2025 — Conference

Submissions

    We propose a single track event over two days with two main formats:

• Short paper: ~15min (20 overall including 5 mins Q/A).
• Long paper: ~30min (40 overall including 10 mins Q/A).

    Authors are invited to submit either original or already presented papers. The submission format for new papers must be either:

• a PDF overview of 2 pages min for a short submission or a 3 pages min for a long submission (of course, full papers are welcome)
• a presentation of at least 10 hearty slides for a short presentation  or 15 hearty slides for a long presentation.

   The submission format for already presented talks or papers is simply the slides of the talk or the the full paper that was presented.

   Submissions that will not comply with the minimum requirements will not be  considered.

   Papers will be submitted on    https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thcon2025  

   The submissions will go through a review process. The program commitee will be published very soon on the Web site of the conference. Submissions  accepted by the organizers will be presented at THCon2025.  For accepted works, at least one of the authors must present the paper during the conference.

Content-related information

   Talks must be submitted as yourself and/or on your work. We do not accept submissions for Marketing or PR purposes. Similarly, we are not interested in product or vendor pitches. Altough we favour F/LOSS (Free/Libre and Open-Source Software) and reproducible works, any academic and non-academic speakers are welcome.

Logistics-related information

    We may need to change the schedule at the last minute (but we will try to avoid any inconvenience of this kind).

Streaming-related information

    THCon 2025 will be broadcast online. The recording will also be uploaded to our Youtube channel. By speaking at the event, you grant us the permission to do so.

A few extra points

    We will do our upmost to accommodate your needs, please feel free to ask  any questions or give us your feedback: we will be happy to help!