Engineering Courses and Certifications

Hussein Nasser

Compressing Certificates in TLS - The Backend Engineering Show

Explore how TLS certificate chains inflate handshakes and how RFC 8879 compresses them, comparing TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 performance and risks.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX

What SRE Could Be - Systems Reliability Engineering

Explores SRE as systems thinking applied to software in production, including the sociotechnical structures behind reliable systems.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

The Knowledge - Towards a Culture of Engineering Documentation

Build a culture of trustworthy, discoverable engineering documentation through platform design, toolchain integration, and required documentation practices.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Let the Chaos Begin - SRE Chaos Engineering Meets Cybersecurity

Explores security chaos engineering as a way to test cyber resiliency and uncover unknown security weaknesses in complex infrastructure.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Hack In The Box Security Conference

Reverse Engineering Custom ASICs By Exploiting Supply-Chain Leaks

Hardware reverse engineering of custom ASICs reveals undocumented interfaces and enables live JTAG debugging of Siemens S7-1200 PLCs.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

44CON Information Security Conference

Introduction to Reverse Engineering C++

Workshop introducing reverse engineering techniques for C++ programs.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Strange Loop Conference

It's Like Coding in the Dark - The Need for Learning Culture in Engineering Teams

Explores how learning culture, developer voice, and performance culture can help engineering teams reduce learning debt.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Strange Loop Conference

Value and Waste in Software Engineering

Explore how waste enters software development through bad code reviews and technical debt, and how reducing it can create value.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Aladdin Persson

How to Get Started with AI Art Using MidJourney - Prompt Engineering and Tips & Tricks

Learn to create AI art in Midjourney by iterating prompts, refining keywords, and using parameters to guide generated images.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Black Hat

Deepfake Social Engineering - Creating a Framework for Synthetic Media Social Engineering

A framework for understanding deepfake-enabled social engineering attacks and building human-centric enterprise countermeasures.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Black Hat

How I Created My Clone Using AI - Next-Gen Social Engineering

A live technical demonstration of building a text, voice, and video bot that clones its creator for online impersonation and social engineering.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Black Hat

Engineering Empathy - Adapting Software Engineering Principles and Process to Security

A role reversal between security and runtime engineers shows how security teams can scale by adopting software engineering principles, planning, feedback, and DevOps culture.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Black Hat

Reverse Engineering the Tesla Battery Management System to Increase Power Available

Reverse-engineer a Tesla Model S battery management system through CAN analysis, firmware changes, diagnostics, and shunt modification to increase available power.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Black Hat

Finding New Bluetooth Low Energy Exploits via Reverse Engineering Multiple Vendors' Firmwares

Reverse-engineering multiple vendors’ Bluetooth Low Energy firmware to uncover proximity-triggered remote code execution vulnerabilities in the protocol’s lowest layers.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Kind Engineering - How to Engineer Kindness

Practical ways for engineers to build kindness through code reviews, psychological safety, honest communication, and giving and receiving feedback.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk