Public Service Announcement : On Sunday September 18th, there will be a car-free sunday in Brussels. This means that people travelling to Brussels by car that day will not be able to enter the city with their vehicle before 7pm. Travel from the airport to the city center by taxi will be possible, but taxis will need to adher to a speed limit of 30km/h in the city (which may drive up your travel cost)….

Dear all, Getting a ticket to Brucon is step one …. maybe even more important for our attendees is planning their days so they can see the talks they want to see, attend the workshops they want to attend and still have time for a beer, playing The Hex Factor or a chat with old and new friends. Without further ado, here is the Brucon schedule : http://2011.brucon.org/index.php/Schedule. Please be aware that this schedule is…

I can’t believe it’s less than a month until Brucon! It gets me excited to finally be able to see everything come together. Everything that numerous volunteers have spent hours on preparing. On Brucon days, as an organizer, you get satisfaction from very little things. Seeing the catering be run without a hitch, seeing people playing The Hex Factor, watching awesome discussions after the talks, seeing people learn in workshops. Those are the moments where…

So, what’s a con without a party? When I set out to organize the Brucon party this year I had a lofty goal. We all work hard enough in our day jobs. The volunteers bust their butt to make Brucon as amazing a conference as it can be. For you, for the volunteers, I wanted to host the most awesome party I could come up with. Finally, everything fell into place and I feel confident…

This post is long overdue … You are all waiting to hear from us which hotel will be the official conference hotel. At this moment we have selected no hotel yet. The main reason for this is that we have learned that there are other events taking place in Brussels at the same time as Brucon. This has resulted in a price increase for hotel rooms (where Brussels is already not the cheapest city when…

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…