Meetups – TurkuSec ry

TurkuSec 10 Years Birthday Meetup

By kaljanyt on Friday, May 15, 2026

Ten Years ago, on 23rd May 2016, a small group of security nerds decided to meet up.

A decade later, we’ve had nearly a meetup a month (through every possible scheduling disaster)😁 , company visits that turned into real conversations, and somehow managed to get industry and academia in the same room without it turning into a debate about who’s more out of touch. 😜

None of it would exist without the people who kept showing up, the sponsors who believed in us early, and whoever keeps finding venues that fits us all. 🫶

We’re having 10 years birthday meetup on 29th of May 🎂 and we want everyone who’s ever been part of this chaos to come celebrate. 🥳

Birthday meetup is powered by Silverskin Information Security Oy, F-Secure and $Sponsor2

MEETUP REGISTRATION: https://events.turkusec.fi/10thBirthday/

Date: 29.05.2026 (Friday)
Time: 17:40 – Onwards
Venue: Q Talo, Nummenpuistokatu 2, 20540 Turku

Schedule (this is just an example and flexile. “schedule”, what a concept!):

17:40 – Doors Open
18:00 – Welcome, raising glasses for TurkuSec, practical info, words from our sponsors
18:10 – “Is human knowledge still valuable?” by Benjamin Särkkä
18:40 – Break/Open Mic
19:00 – “ADCS for Defenders” by Niklas Särökaari
19:30 – Break/Open Mic
19:45 – “To Be Discussed” by Joona Hoikkala
20:30 – Pystyy Vetää/Open Mic

Speakers:

Benjamin Särkkä – Founder of DisObey, Head of Cybersecurity Assurance at Volvo
Niklas Särökaari – Lead Cybersecurity Operations Engineer at KONE
Joona Hoikkala – Joona Hoikkala

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TurkuSec April Meetup

By kaljanyt on Saturday, April 11, 2026

Welcome to the April 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 Forculus Oy!

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

Date: 24.04.2026 (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 sponsors
18:10 – “When Trusted Code Turns Against You” by Shashika Harshani
Description: Abuse of Trust in Modern Software Supply Chains
18:40 – Break
19:00 – “Code That Fights Back: How Phishers Outrun Analysts in 2026” by Panu Teräs
Description: I spent 2025 dissecting a phishing kit that treated security analysts as a threat. Tycoon2FA is a master of adversarial logic, equipped with anti-analysis triggers that kill forensic tools. International law enforcement seized its core infrastructure in early 2026, yet the platform was back on its feet before the dust had even settled.
20:00 – Pystyy Vetää

Speakers:

Shashika Harshani – Incident Response Investigator at WithSecure, TurkuSec Board Member
Panu Teräs – Security Analyst at NetNordic Finland, TurkuSec/DisArray Volunteer

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Turkusec March 2026 meetup

By kaljanyt on Saturday, March 21, 2026

Welcome to the March 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: 26.3.2026 (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 hosts/sponsors
18:10 – Infosecurity and your mom (Or the basics of preventing your extended family from being scammed) by Tatu Aalto
18:50 – Break
19:00 – Slot open / Lightning talks
20:30 – Pystyy Vetää

Speakers:

Tatu Aalto – That dude who does the Turkusec Livestreams. Also knows something about infosec I guess (and wrote this post)

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TurkuSec January Meetup

By kaljanyt on Friday, January 16, 2026

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

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From Cyber Awareness to Resilience

By kaljanyt on Friday, November 14, 2025

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

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TurkuSec x W4CFI November Meetup

By kaljanyt on Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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.

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UTU Student & TurkuSec Excursion to F-Secure & WithSecure

By kaljanyt on Monday, October 27, 2025

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.

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Disarray pre-event

By kaljanyt on Friday, October 10, 2025

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

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TurkuSec September Meetup

By kaljanyt on Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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

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Kevätkokous Ma 04.09.2025 klo 17.00/Spring Meeting Mon 04.09.2025 17.00

By kaljanyt on Tuesday, July 15, 2025

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.

Opening of the meeting
Election of a chairperson, a secretary, two examiners of the minutes and vote two counters for the meeting
Assessing quorum and legality
Establishing the agenda and procedures of the meeting
Presenting the financial report, annual report, and auditor’s statement to the meeting
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.
Election of an auditor and auditor’s deputy
Any emerging other topics
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