UPDATE – OHM2013 Tickets are sold out. OHM2013. Observe, Hack, Make. A five day outdoor international camping festival for hackers and makers, and those with an inquisitive mind (31-July to 4-Aug in at the Geestmerambacht festival grounds, 30km north of Amsterdam). The target audience includes free-thinkers, philosophers, activists, geeks, scientists, artists, creative minds and a whole bunch of people interested in lots of interesting stuff. Exactly the kind of people we enjoy coming to BruCON,…

It’s so easy! Just print out this poster, hang it in a visible spot at your workplace, and send us a halfway-decent photo as documentary evidence to training@brucon.org. We’ll randomly select five winners from qualifying submissions. First prize will be a pass to the speakers’ dinner and an exclusive 0x05 limited-edition commemorative t-shirt. Four runners-up will receive an exclusive 0x05 limited-edition commemorative t-shirt. Winners will be announced during BruCON 0x05.

The training line-up for BruCON 0x05 has been finalized.For the quick low-down you can go here :  http://2013.brucon.org/index.php/Trainingor continue reading on … In past years some trainers have told us that the two-day format is a bitconstraining so this year we’re featuring a couple of extendedthree-day courses: Russ Gideon’s class on Offensive Techniques  Justin Searle’s class on pentesting Smart Grid and SCADA with SamuraiSTFU.  Filling out the line-up we’re excited to have severalexcellent two-day classes…

BruCON are pleased to announce that this year they’ll be running aRookie Track to help assist new speakers give their first security talkat this year’s conference. The “Rookie Track” concept was born at BSides London this year and itbrought interesting concept by new speakers to the audience. It created avenue where new speakers could step on the stage and present. We thoughtit was awesome and we think the concept would be great fit for BruCON….

You can’t hide your secrets forever and as we grow excited about the BruCON 2013 content, we can share with pride the current selection for our 5th annual conference.  Once again we offer you a mix of technical and less technical information security topics covered by speakers that live and breathe information security every day.  We and the volunteer team are working hard to make this event a worthwhile celebration of our 5th anniversary and…

At BruCON we’re pretty idealistic. We truly believe that, as a community we can achieve great things. For many of our speakers, workshop organizers and trainers, BruCON was the first venue they presented/trained at. Last year, Mathy Vanhoef was one of those ‘new kids on the block’ as he presented his research on new flaws in WPA-TKIP. We were aware of Mathy and his technical chops for a while so we were excited when he…

this post could alternatively be titled “how you can’t keep a cat in a bag in front of a bunch of hackers” * no cats were harmed during the opening of the BruCON registrations We know it has taken a while but as we ran some tests this morning to validate our registration and payment systems, it didn’t take long for people to find out that registration had opened and we received a live test…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETraditionally BruCON has been an held in a 4-day format, 2 days of trainings (which will be announced soon) and 2 days of conference (talks, workshops).  However, as FX and the PH Neutral crew aptly describe here, we too have observed a demand for a conference format that moves away from the traditional one-to-many format to a many-to-many format that allows for the exchange of knowledge and accelerated output of prototypes and solutions. This…

At BruCON 2012 we announced that we launched our 5by5 project where we were looking forward to see submissions coming in from individuals or groups that we could support to drive or speed up development.  With a budget of €25000 we coud support 5 projects with up to €5000 and here we are today, ready to support the following projects: 1. OWASP OWTF (Abraham Aranguren) More details on the Offensive Web Testing Framework can be…

Every year we get loads of suggestions on “this would be an awesome keynote speaker” or “I would really like to see this person present at BruCON”. Every year we are on the lookout for remarkable individuals that are defining, influencing and shaping the information security community and industry to present their unique perspective to you, our BruCON audience. There are always the usual suspects: big names you’ll eventually see at one of the bigger…