Yesterday we noticed some Belgian Security Blogs making statements on behalf of the BruCON organization. We are not denying or confirming anything published but we are only stating that those blog(s) contain inaccurate information and that we have no affiliation them. Please follow our blog for correct and official information about BruCON. The official contact for press for BruCON is press (at) brucon.org and nobody else. Further updates will be posted in the coming hours.
Some small changes were made to the schedule. Unfortunately, Christofer Hoff had a scheduling conflict and will be replaced by Craig Balding. Craig founded cloudsecurity.org where he blogs about Cloud Computing and Security. Together with Christofer, he is the host of the Cloud Security podcast and has presented at Black Hat Europe, eCrime London and the World Cloud Computing Summit. As a bonus, Jean-Luc Allard and Alain De Greve will join us to give an…
What started as a joke while drinking beers, has become a real experiment. Some of the crew thought it would be fun to do a BruCON podcast. With only basic equipment, they will be interviewing some of the speakers to give you a better view of the contents of the BruCON talks. We will also do some podcast interviews during the conference to give a feeling of the atmosphere there. The first edition gives a…
Just a reminder for the volunteers that tomorrow (Wednesday evening) 18:30 is our two-weekly meeting. All the dates and location or other information is available on the volunteer part of the wiki. Our gathering point for meetings is: Brasserie (Hotel) Le Dome Boulevard du Jardin Botanique 9 1000 Bruxelles Thank you in advance for coming!
After a few days of beta testing. The BruCON website has been officially launched !!! Although word of mouth has already resulted in some blogposts (rootshell), this can be considered as the official launch of the event. France has HACKFR. The Netherlands have HAR (Hacking at Random). Luxemburg has HACKLU. Germany has the Chaos Computer Congress. Now finally, Belgium has BruCON!! The spirit of the congress is an event organized by and for the hacker(*)…