Hackfest Social-Engineering Contest 2025

Prove that you can social-engineer anyone in English or French.

Get in a booth in front of a crowd, do a phone call to a known company, gather multiple flag by only asking them question by voice… and win!

What is Hackfest Social-Engineering Contest?

A social engineering contest by telephone where the participant must obtain privileged information via engineering discussion techniques. The goal is to get an X number of information and the best wins!

Funny, interesting and stressful, will you be up to it?

Presented by

Ceiba & OceanRiot

Schedule

Day 1 - Friday

Time Title
08:30 Village opens
08:45 Opening remarks/rules
09:30 Hackfest 101
10:00 Contestant #1 - #4
13:00 Speaker: Dominique Gagnon
“Et si notre culture d’entreprise bienveillante était notre pire faille de sécurité ?“
14:00 Contestant #5 - #10
15:00 Speaker: Cynthia Deslandes
“Ingénierie sociale : Attention au côté obscur”
15:30 Contestant #5 - #10 (cont’d)
17:30 Scoring and announcement of round 2 contestants

Day 2 - Saturday

Time Title
09:00 Opening remarks/scoreboard
Assignment of targets, and drawing of competition slots
09:30 Finalist #1 and #2
11:30 Speaker: Marco Estrela
“Physical Pentesting: Breaching the Human Perimeter“
12:00 Finalist #3
13:30 Speaker: Cynthia Deslandes
“CSI Linux : Ça mange quoi en hiver?”
14:00 Finalist #4 and guests
16:30 Roundtable discussion
Highlights, lowlights, what worked, what didn’t work
17:00 Winners announced
21:00 Contest - Night Edition

Registration & Form

  • Call for Participants: Closed
  • Call for Crew: Closed