Tuesday, November 10th, 2026

Location: ECPI University, 
5555 Greenwich Rd – Suite 360, Virginia Beach, VA 23462

 

 

Speaker Bio: Nicholas Dubois is a security researcher specializing in low level OS internals and software security. Currently working as an iOS Researcher at Fingerprint, he focuses on advanced mobile security research, automated binary analysis, and understanding complex operating system mechanisms. As the founder of Dragon Eye Intelligence, consultant & instructor at Hexordia, and a frequent speaker at security venues such as Black Hat, Nicholas combines deep expertise in reverse engineering with custom tooling development to analyze platform architectures and enhance software intelligence.

Talk Description: Darwin Notifications serve as a core inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism in Apple OSes for broadcasting systemwide events between the kernel, daemons, and applications as intended for efficient state synchronization. Throughout this talk we will understand how these notifications can be identified through static decomplication and dynamic monitoring on jailbroken devices, leveraged offensively, and leveraged defensively to harden access controls. Ultimately, this comprehensive review empowers engineers and researchers to audit and fortify Apple platform IPC surfaces. Attendees will gain insights into auditing and exploiting this often-overlooked attack surface.

 

After-Social:

As soon as the meeting is over, we will take all our chatting over to Plaza Degollado Mexican Grill. It is down the street from ECPI on the corner of Newtown Road. Let’s have some fun together.

Schedule:

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM Meet, Greet and Network

6:00 PM – 6:15 PM Introduction and upcoming events discussion

6:15 PM – 7:15 PM Speakers Presentation and Q&A

7:15 PM – 7:45 PM ISSA-HR Business Meeting (Meeting ends)

7:45 PM – Unofficial social @ Plaza Degollado Mexican Grill

Registration:

Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2003989041168