27 Jul: Where the party’s at …

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…

25 Jul: Staying in Brussels during Brucon

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…

14 Jul: Last day of early bird tickets BruCON Training

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…

23 Jun: Announcing Brucon workshops

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…

15 Jun: and … registrations are open

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…

03 Jun: Confirmed Speakers Brucon 2011

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…

03 Jun: Brucon pre-registrations

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…

29 Apr: A lot of announcements to make !

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…

08 Feb: Confirmation of Brucon dates

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…

24 Jan: Brucon Call For Papers 2011

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…