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…

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…