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Talks
Threat Hunting with Jupyter and Pandas
by willasaywhat
We had an intrepid group of students this month for Micah’s talk on Threat Hunting with Jupyter and Pandas. We learned a ton about how to use Taegis Magic in conjunction with Jupyter to build repeatable threat hunting processes that can be shared across an organization to more effectively spin up, share, and collaborate on threat hunting activities. A big thank you to Micah for presenting, and to everyone who came out to our first meeting of 2026!
Here’s a bunch of great resources he shared during the walkthrough:
- Threat Hunting with Jupyter Notebooks from Secureworks
- Threat Hunting on Taegis Tutorials
- Taegis SDK for Python
- Taegis Magic
15 October 2025
Agentic Hacking in VS Code and Soldering
by willasaywhat
We had two awesome talks at the October meeting about Agentic Hacking and Soldering. Below is the run down on each for anyone who missed it.
Agentic Hacking in VS Code
amne51ac reprised their talk about agentic hacking in VS Code that they gave at SecretCon this year and walked us all through setting up RooCode to do some realtime hacking with AI as our copilot.
A couple things to remember when following along with the blog post on the HackerSidekick website:
- Set the temperature to exactly 1.0 by going into RooCode’s advanced settings and setting a Custom Temperature
- Remember to set the temperature for all modes, not just Architect
- Failure to set the temperature to exactly 1.0 will cause a 4XX error
Soldering
bran gave us a deep dive on soldering and how it works, why it works, and how to do it right. Their slides are available in ODP format here.
They also shared some cool videos on how soldering works and how modern fabrication facilities function:
tags: talks5 September 2025
Local LLMs & MCP
by willasaywhat
Slides and demo video for the Local LLMs & MCP talk given at the September 2025 meeting are below.