Hello there BruCONneers! Over the past month we have been chewing over the CFP submissions. We received really great proposals and had to make some tough choices. And finally, white smoke! We are thrilled to propose you the Line-Up for BruCON 0x06: Keynotes Adam Shostack, Veteran startup CTO and author focused on bringing security and privacy to customers. Currently doing so at Microsoft. Jennifer Minella, VP of Engineering & consulting CISO at Carolina Advanced Digital,…

Hello there BruCONneers! Over the past few months we’ve been busy preparing our Spring Trainings (tip : you can still register!) but that doesn’t mean we haven’t focused on our main event : BruCON 2014 aka BruCON 0x06. As you’ve come to expect from us we are always on the lookout for speakers, trainers and side-events that are exceptional and bring information and knowledge to our audiences and the information security community in general. I…

This is the call for papers (CFP) for talks and workshops for the 6th edition of BruCON, a 2-day Security and Hacking Conference full of interesting presentations, workshops and security challenges. BruCON is an open-minded gathering of people discussing computer security, privacy, and information technology. The conference tries to create bridges between the various actors active in computer security world including (but not limited to) hackers, security professionals, security communities, non-profit organizations, CERTs, students, law enforcement…

Hackers and security enthusiasts of the world, In 2013 we launched our first 5by5 program. We set aside 25,000 euros to sponsor independent research and contributions to the information security field and sponsored projects with a maximum of 5,000 euros. As BruCON we were very happy with the results and we hope the security community enjoyed this as well. It was good. So good that for 2014 we will do it all over again. As…

BruCON edition 0x06 will take place in Ghent on 22-26 September 2014 next year. The conference on 25-26 September, and the regular BruCON trainings  on 22-24 September 2014. Our BruCON trainings have always been highly successful and well attended in the last 5 editions.On popular demand we organize an extra batch of BruCON Spring Trainings on 23-25 April 2014! We are extremely proud to present a fine line up of trainers and topics: Rapid Reverse…

We have some great trainings lined up for you at BruCON this year.Just to make it even harder for you to choose one, we will put some of these trainings in the spotlight. The second training is Hacking PDF, taught by Didier Stevens. Didier is a pioneer in malicious PDF document research, and has developed several tools to help with the analysis of malicious PDF documents. Steven on this unique training: “What do you want from training? I want to…

We are thrilled to announce to have a Cuckoo Sandbox hackaton and workshop at BruCON! Cuckoo Sandbox is an open source for automating the dynamic analysis of malware. It allows you to run and monitor any suspicious file inside an isolated environment and collect indicators and evidences of its behavior. Cuckoo is growing to be an established but complex software and there are many features, improvements and fixes that are yet to be developed. At Brucon core developers, contributors and users…

We have some great trainings lined up for you at BruCON this year.Just to make it even harder for you to choose one, we will put some of these trainings in the spotlight. We start with The Art of Exploiting Injection Flaws, taught by Sumit ‘Sid’ Siddharth. Sid is the contributing author of the book SQL Injection: Attacks and Defense (2nd Edition). We caught up with Sid and asked him what the USPs of the course are:…

During the last four editions, BruCON has been supported by a group of dedicated sponsors. Without their commitment and aid, BruCON would not be what it is today. The support of these organisation allows us to: keep the conference affordable for everyone provide catering and a party for free invite quality speakers from all over the world and support their travel and accommodation For our 2013 edition, we are very proud to announce the following…

Since the inception of BruCON we have always hosted the “The Hex Factor” Capture The Flag events which were always met with great enthusiasm and received excellent feedback. This year, unfortunately and due to various circumstances, THF will not be able to continue and while we’re grateful for the stellar work the team put into the event, we were challenged to come up with something equally great and worthy to step in the footsteps of…