You’ve got until 12 midnight on Friday 15th July (CET timezone) to take advantage of BruCON’s early bird tickets for great trainings: FAIR – Factor Analysis of Information Risk by Jack Jones Corelan Live – Win32 Exploit Development Bootcamp by Peter Van Eeckhoutte There’s An App For That (Pentesting Mobile Apps) by Joe McCray Threat Modeling and Architecture review by Pravir Chandra Dissecting Wireless Network Security by Vivek Ramachandran Details on http://2011.brucon.org/index.php/Training Quick Decisions Might…

Everybody knows by now that Brucon is not just another infosec conference. One of our primary objectives is to bring the skills to the people who need/want them by the people who know them. This year is no exception : Brucon will be filled with action in the presentation tracks but we’ll also be hosting several workshops.Here’s the list of currently confirmed workshops, with more to come soon : – White Hat Shellcode: Not for…

In the past few weeks we have worked with fever to get our brand new registration page online, with online payment facility but technical difficulties have not been worked out yet. Because we understand that you all need to start planning for an awesome time in Brussels and at Brucon, we are switching to plan B. We are now taking registrations for both the conference and the training sessions using our old (and tested) registration…

Without further delay, here is the final list of selected (and confirmed) speakers : update June 15th : Ripping Out Code: Practical Attack Surface Reduction for Open Source Systems by Craig Balding update June 13th : Myth-busting Risk by Jack Jones Step-by-Step for Software Security (that anyone can follow) by Pravir Chandra Botnets and Browsers – Brothers in a Ghost Shell by Aditja K. Sood The 99¢ heart surgeon dilemma, How to fix penetration testing…

First off our sincere apologies for the delay we have ran into opening Brucon registrations. This year we have, for the first time, teamed up with an online payment processor to enable payments by credit cards. Something that is new for us and which has been requested by many of you in the previous years. This has driven us to a complete overhaul and further automation of the registration process and seeing that we’re all…

We’re getting up to speed people. A new location, keynote speakers, trainings and a new registration process (payment at least) Locationyour are by now aware that we had to change locations. The address of the new location is : Vrije universiteit BrusselPleinlaan 21050 Elsene you can find more travel information here : http://2011.brucon.org/index.php/Travel Keynote Speakers, we haz them Haroon Meer, Alex Hutton and Jaron Lanier will be our keynote speakers for the 2011 edition. More…

Ladies and Gentlemen, between kicking of the Call For Trainings a few weeks ago and launching our much anticipated Call For Papers today, we have been working hard to fix a date for our conference while looking for a location. When and where obviously are interdependent and we can assure you that we have nailed both. What we forgot in the rush, was to let you know … So here, is the confirmation for the…

Call for Papers BruCON.v3 2011============================== Brussels, Belgium — This is the call for papers (CFP) and participation for the 3rd 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…

Today we launch our call for training! As all of you are living towards the 3rd BruCON edition in 2011, we are working hard behind the scenes to make sure it is as awesome as you’ve come to expect from us. We believe that one of the strong points of BruCON is that we can offer quality training by industry experts that not only know what they teach, but also live it on a day…

Bsides is a community driven initiative very similar to BruCON. BSides is coming to Berlin for the first time and BruCON decided to support this event. Each BSides is a community-driven framework for building events for and by information security community members. The goal is to expand the spectrum of conversation beyond the traditional confines of space and time. It creates opportunities for individuals to both present and participate in an intimate atmosphere that encourages…