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Software Security Events This Week
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Sunday Tea Club Regular Meetup
Sunday Tea Club was founded in Daejeon in 2023.
Created as a quiet alternative to Korea’s typical drinking and nightlife culture, the club offers a calm, meaningful way to spend your Sunday afternoons.
If you’ve ever wished for a slower, more mindful space to enjoy afternoon tea and gentle conversation — you’re more than welcome to join us!
Participant fee 15,000won+order 1drink(The participation fee is only paid once — at your first visit. All fees are collected and reinvested into the club to purchase new teaware, high-quality teas, or ingredients for future gatherings.)
English-Korean Langauge Exchange in Daejeon
**What to Expect at Our Events**
* Weekly in-person language exchange meetups
* Casual, café-style atmosphere
There’s always someone new to meet and talk to.
**Who Comes to These Meetups?**
* Both locals and internationals
**How It Works**
* Choose an event time
* Book a spot
* Show up and join the conversation
That’s it.
You can come alone or with friends.
Running late? No problem. Join when you can, leave when you want.
*Please note:*
To keep conversations balanced, **walk-in registration may be denied depending on group balance**.
We strongly recommend booking in advance.
**Why People Like This Group**
**1\. Smart Group Matching**
Participants are grouped to create balanced conversations based on language level and background with optimised algorithm.
**2\. Personalized AI Feedback**
Gain insights into your progress! Receive **AI-driven feedback** after the session to help you refine your language skills and track your growth.
**3\. Meet New People Each Round**
Groups rotate every session, so you don’t get stuck talking to the same people all night.
**4\. Beginner\-Friendly**
Beginners are always welcome. You’ll never be forced into conversations beyond your comfort level.
**FAQs**
**1\. My target language isn’t very good\. Can I still join?**
Yes. Beginners are welcome and grouped with others at a similar level.
**2\. Can I arrive late or leave early?**
Yes. The meetup is casual and flexible.
**3\. Do I need to come every week?**
No. Join whenever it fits your schedule.
**Community Standards**
We strive to maintain a high-quality environment for all participants.
1. Positive Vibes Only: We welcome people who contribute to a better experience for everyone.
2. Accountability: To ensure a safe and friendly space, if a member receives three separate complaints, they will be asked to withdraw from all future events.
3. Your Voice Matters: If you have a negative experience, you will be given the opportunity to provide feedback after every event.
**How to Join**
* Book your spot: [https://nurio.kr/events](https://nurio.kr/events)
* Questions or help: [http://pf.kakao.com/_xmzbQn/chat](http://pf.kakao.com/_xmzbQn/chat)
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**모임에서는 무엇을 하나요?**
* **주 1회 오프라인 언어 교환:** 카페처럼 편안한 분위기에서 정기적으로 만납니다.
* **새로운 만남:** 매번 새로운 사람들을 만나고 다양한 주제로 대화할 수 있습니다.
**누가 참여하나요?**
한국인과 외국인 멤버들이 함께 모여 언어와 문화를 공유합니다.
**참여 방법**
1. **일정 선택:** 원하는 시간과 장소를 확인하세요.
2. **참가 신청:** 온라인으로 간편하게 예약합니다.
3. **대화 참여:** 현장에 오셔서 자유롭게 대화를 시작하세요!
> **Tip:** 혼자 오셔도 좋고 친구와 함께 오셔도 됩니다. 늦게 오거나 일찍 나가는 것도 전혀 문제없는 자유로운 모임입니다.
**안내 사항:**
원활한 그룹 구성과 대화 밸런스를 위해, **현장 참여(워크인)는 인원 및 그룹 구성 상황에 따라 제한될 수 있습니다.**
참여를 원하시는 경우 **사전 예약을 권장드립니다**
**이 모임이 특별한 이유**
1. **스마트 그룹 매칭:** 최적화된 알고리즘을 통해 언어 수준과 배경을 고려하여 대화가 가장 잘 통하는 그룹을 구성해 드립니다.
2. **AI 실력 향상 피드백:** 모임 참여 후, 여러분의 언어 실력을 분석하고 성장을 돕는 **개인별 AI 피드백**이 제공됩니다.
3. **매 라운드 로테이션:** 세션마다 그룹이 바뀌기 때문에 한 번의 모임에서 최대한 다양한 사람들과 교류할 수 있습니다.
4. **초보자 맞춤형:** 초보자도 안심하고 참여하세요. 본인의 수준에 맞는 그룹에서 부담 없이 대화를 시작할 수 있습니다.
**자주 묻는 질문 (FAQs)**
* **목표 언어를 잘 못하는데 괜찮을까요?** 네, 당연합니다. 비슷한 수준의 멤버들과 그룹이 배정되므로 걱정하지 않으셔도 됩니다.
* **늦게 가거나 일찍 나가도 되나요?** 네, 모임은 캐주얼하고 유연하게 운영되므로 본인의 일정에 맞춰 편하게 이용하세요.
* **매주 꼭 참여해야 하나요?** 아니요. 원하시는 일정이 있을 때만 선택해서 참여하시면 됩니다.
**운영 원칙**
우리는 모두에게 즐거운 언어 교환 경험을 선사하기 위해 긍정적인 에너지를 가진 분들과 함께합니다.
* **매너 있는 커뮤니티:** 타인에게 불쾌감을 주는 행동을 지양하며, 서로 존중하는 분들만 참여를 허용합니다.
* **피드백 시스템:** 이벤트 종료 후 불편했던 점을 자유롭게 전달하실 수 있습니다.
* **참여 제한:** 쾌적한 환경 유지를 위해 3회 이상의 불만이 접수된 멤버는 모든 이벤트 참여가 제한될 수 있습니다.
**신청 및 문의**
* **참가 신청하기:** [https://nurio.kr/events](https://nurio.kr/events)
* **문의 사항:** [카카오톡 채널 상담](http://pf.kakao.com/_xmzbQn/chat)
Software Security Events Near You
Connect with your local Software Security community
Columbus HUG February
Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!!
https://sessionize.com/cbus-hug-2026/
Columbus Code & Coffee 83 @ Improving
Columbus Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session. People of all skill levels attend, and we love it that way. Many people (optionally) bring projects to work on, and many other people (optionally) socialize the entire time. It's entirely up to you!
**What to Expect at the Intro Circle**
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Near the beginning of the event (1:30 pm), we do a standup:
* Organizer announcements, updates, and logistics
Round 1 - (7 secs max):
* Your name
* What you're working on
* What you can help others with
Round 2:
* Community events you wanna plug. If none, that's cool too.
Round 3:
* Job opportunities you're hiring for OR announce that you are looking for one. If none, that's cool.
After the introduction circle, everything is self-organized! Feel free to work alone, pair up, attend one of our workshops/presentations, or mingle!
COhPy Monthly Meeting
**NEW LOCATION: Improving Office in Franklinton**
Physical location:
Improving Office
330 Rush Alley Suite #150
Columbus, OH 43215
Schedule:
* 6:00 p.m.: Socialize, eat, and drink. Improving will be providing pizza and beverages.
* 6:30 to 8:00 pm. Main meeting and presentation(s).
See the handy Parking Map - we recommend street parking.
[Street Parking Map](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1u2A4fLNlxwLJn0KA_hKc8bnFlFHLvsHBDh-_8wzX_tk/edit?usp=sharing)
We meet on the last Monday of each Month. Presentations are given by members and friends of this group. If you would like to do a presentation (small or large) on a python topic, please contact centralohpython@gmail.com
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT UPCOMING TRANSITION | February 2026 Chapter Event
**Important note about the retirement of the OWASP Meetup platform**
Fellow OWASP Toronto members,
We are making an important announcement regarding an upcoming transition. The OWASP Foundation has announced that they will be retiring their Meetup Pro subscription effective January 31, 2026:
https://owasp.org/blog/2026/01/13/retiring-meetup.html
This means that our OWASP Toronto Meetup group may be removed in the coming days. We understand this may be short notice, so we want to make this announcement before we lose access.
You are an important part of our chapter community. Many attendees I have spoken to have discovered OWASP Toronto via Meetup. To continue engaging with the community while using a platform that enables discoverability, we will moving to the [Evenbrite](https://owasp-toronto-chapter.eventbrite.com/) for publishing our events. You can continue to follow us via our [Google Group mailing list](https://groups.google.com/a/owasp.org/g/toronto-chapter), our [Chapter page](https://owasp.org/www-chapter-toronto/), our [LinkedIn group](https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/owasp-toronto-chapter/), our [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqmBl-u_4cOEiH3OXWE3sPg), our Slack channel ([#owasp-toronto-chapter](https://owasp.slack.com/archives/C075DRCB1PZ), does not require an OWASP membership), as well as on our new [Discord channel](https://discord.gg/eg3upJ6N).
Please see below for details of our February 12 event. Visit our [Eventbrite](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/owasp-toronto-february-2026-tickets-1982057078076) page for more information!
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**Dual Talk Event: Raising Cyber Awareness Through Electronic Word of Mouth \| When AI Becomes Application Logic: Securing Shadow AI**
Presentation #1: Raising Cybersecurity Awareness Through Electronic Word of Mouth: A Data-Driven Assessment
Awareness of the many cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and solutions to mitigate these threats/vulnerabilities is instrumental in improving basic cybersecurity behaviours. A healthy body of knowledge has been devoted to exploring how to better increase awareness, in any given topic, among members of the general public which have explored the role of word of mouth (WOM) and electronic word of mouth (eWOM) in spreading awareness. In recent years, the rise of social media platforms as an alternative communication channel has created efforts to promote cybersecurity awareness online regarding the numerous cybersecurity threats. However, little research attention has been devoted to exploring eWOM communication on social media surrounding cybersecurity awareness. Moreover, no research to date has considered the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these eWOM discussions related to cybersecurity awareness. To address these literature gaps, this research collected 227, 270 relevant tweets surrounding cybersecurity awareness from 2018 to 2022 conducting an exploratory analysis of the corpus using social network analyses, topic modelling and semantic similarity analysis. The results found topics rose in prominence and then dissipated as newer topics emerged while information was found to spread incredibly far despite a high degree of community forming, suggesting the online discourse is very open and evolving over time. These findings illustrate the potential of social media as an effective tool for raising cybersecurity awareness. The impact of COVID-19 observed an increase in the reach of information in addition to new specific topics emerging in the discourse, but the effects appear to be temporary.
Speaker: Dane Vanderkooi
Dane Vanderkooi is a fifth-year Doctoral Candidate in management science at TorontoMet University who specializes in researching cybersecurity and digital privacy behaviours. He completed his bachelor's of commerce at Uottawa and holds a master's in management science degree from Ryerson University. Dane has published his research in academic journals, conferences and industry reports. Dane has also presented his research at various conferences including HC2P, SERENE-RISC, HCII, CyberToronto, ASAC and SocialMedia+Society, AMCIS, and ICIS. Dane is certified in cybersecurity (CC) from ISC2 and has practical experience working in the field of cybersecurity with private industry, non-for-profits, and the public sector including the Canadian Armed Forces, Public Health and Safety Canada, Justice Canada, Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED), Bell, BMO, Desjardins, Ritchie Bros and Achev.
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Presentation #2: When AI Becomes Application Logic: Securing Shadow AI
AI is entering production faster than security teams can see it. From “simple” chatbot integrations to LLMs wired directly into business logic — and agents running entire application flows — organizations are accumulating Shadow AI: untracked, ungoverned, and often dangerously over-privileged.
This talk shows how AI quietly changes application behavior at runtime: expanding trust boundaries, introducing non-deterministic authorization paths, and creating blast radiuses that static inventories and policy checklists cannot capture.
Using real-world architectural patterns and runtime signals, we’ll demonstrate how security teams can identify where AI is actually used, what it can access, and how attackers abuse AI-driven logic to exploit new classes of vulnerabilities.
Attendees will leave with a practical framework for securing AI-powered applications — grounded in runtime behavior and evidence, not assumptions.
Speaker: Daniel Shechter
Daniel Shechter is the CEO and Co-Founder of Miggo, an Application Detection and Response platform. Shechter has an impressive background in both threat intelligence and within the security industry. Before founding Miggo he was leading cyber security teams in Israel's elite cyber intelligence division, Unit 8200. He later joined McKinsey, a strategy and management consulting company, where he provided guidance on acquisition, developing new business strategies and more. Shechter is an industry expert in security, incident detection and response, threat intelligence, and attack observability.
Cocoaheads
Come out to Improving for our monthly iOS and Mac meetings.
This Month's Presentation:
Bring a lightning talk with you and let's learn some quick things.
What is Cocoaheads (http://cocoaheads.org/)?
CocoaHeads is a group devoted to discussion of Apple Computer's Cocoa Framework for programming on MacOS X and iOS (including the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch). During monthly meetings, members present on their projects and offer tutorials on various programming topics.
What is BuckeyeCocoa (http://buckeyecocoa.org/)?
BuckeyeCocoa is a group of Objective-C/Swift developers/enthusiasts. We host monthly Cocoaheads and near-weekly NSCoder meetings in Columbus, Ohio. The meetings are free to attend.
Presentations!
Presenters welcome! We are always in need of people willing to present material. Any Swift and/or Objective-C related topic is welcome. Times can be 5 minutes (i.e. lightning talks) to a maximum of 2 hours. Interested? Contact info is on the BuckeyeCocoa website.
To volunteer for a presentation contact us at @BuckeyeCocoa on Twitter.
Follow us on Twitter! @BuckeyeCocoa (https://twitter.com/#!/Buckeyecocoa/) For more information: http://buckeyecocoa.org/
Photography 102 - A Deeper Dive Into Photography (FEE/Voucher Based)
**Photography 102: A Deeper Dive Into Photography**
**Are you ready to dig deeper into photography? Then this intermediate photography course is perfect for expanding your knowledge of photography!**
This intermediate photography class builds upon the foundational knowledge acquired in the Photography 101 class. It focuses on empowering students to move beyond automatic camera modes and take greater creative control over their images. This course uses an engaging and practical hands-on approach to reinforcing these newer and more advanced photographic concepts.
**Through hands-on exercises and insightful lessons, you will learn:**
* **Master More Advanced Camera Settings**
* **Aperture and F-stops:** Understanding how aperture controls depth of field and using it to create blurry backgrounds (shallow depth of field) for portraits or sharp focus throughout a landscape (deep depth of field).
* **Shutter Speed:** Learning to utilize shutter speed to freeze fast action or intentionally blur motion for artistic effects.
* **ISO:** Exploring ISO settings for optimal image quality in different lighting conditions, understanding the trade-off between sensitivity and potential image noise/grain.
* **Exposure Modes:** Beyond "Auto", understanding and utilizing manual (M), aperture-priority (A or Av), shutter-priority (S or Tv), and program (P) modes for specific shooting scenarios.
* **White Balance:** Learn how to effectively set white balance controls to represent colors in varying lighting conditions properly.
* **Metering and Exposure Compensation:** Understanding how the camera measures light and how to use exposure compensation to fine-tune exposure for desired results.
* **On-Camera Flash Basics:** Gaining a basic understanding of when and how to use the built-in flash or external flash units effectively.
* **Advanced Concepts and Techniques**
* **Composition Beyond the Basics:** Looking at some more advanced composition concepts and taking a deeper look at the Elements of Design, learning to use space more effectively, controlling the elements of the scene that are drawing attention, and mastering visual weight.
* **Lighting Beyond Natural Light:** Introduction to artificial lighting, such as off-camera flash, reflectors, and softboxes, to control and shape light for different effects.
* **Basic Image Editing:** An introduction to photo editing software like Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, covering essential tools for adjusting brightness, contrast, color, and sharpness.
* **Developing a Personal Style:** Exploring ways to refine a unique artistic voice and create a consistent photographic style.
**This class provides the next step in the path to becoming a more proficient and artistic photographer, allowing for more advanced usage of the camera system.**
**Prerequisites:**
* A camera (film, DSLR, or mirrorless) that has manual controls is required. Hands-on exercises make having the camera in class highly beneficial. You will need at least one lens to evaluate the results of control exercises.
* You may attend this class in one of two ways:
1. With a class voucher provided by your retail camera store
2. Purchasing a seat in the class
NSCoder Night
Bring your work or your hobby, hang out, and code with us.
Follow @buckeyecocoa for more information.












