We promised more content and more surprises and here is the next one: a beer workshop. Since Belgium is known for its beers, we thought it would be fun on how to learn how to hack together your own beer. Machtelt gave this workshop at Hacking at Random and she is willing to give this workshop also at BruCON. Brewing a great Belgian-style double-fermentation beer, includes tasting and taking some home. You will learn the…

Another security conference is taking place in the same week as BruCON in Barcelona, Spain but luckily not on the same days. This created a great opportunity to visit both conferences. Although we are not officially affiliated, SOURCE Barcelona has offered BruCON attendees a 50% discount to visit their conference. Simply use the code “SOURCEBru10” at registration – (www.sourceconference.com). With flights starting at 109 euro between BRU and MAD, this could be a tempting offer….

Joe McCray is in Brussels and will give a talk on SQL injection at an extra OWASP BE Meeting Wednesday 16th of June. Joe is a also a BruCON 2010 speaker and trainer. He will give a presentation on “You Spent All That Money And You Still Got Owned” next September. Abstract: This talk will focus on practical methods of identifying and bypassing modern enterprise class security solutions such as Load Balancers, both Network and…

Do you have something interesting to share and you can tell it in 5 minutes? Go to our wiki and sign up for a lightning talk! It doesn’t have to be mindblowing research or 0-days, your favorite tool or project might interesting to others as well!! Lightning talks are presentations of about 5 minutes. Death by bulletpoint is not allowed. One of our speakers Craig Balding together with blogger Chris John Riley proposed to coordinate…

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You can download our 13 videos from the following mirrors: http://2009.brucon.org/articles/v/i/d/Video.html We want to thank all these people for hosting our videos. If you have some bandwidth and space to spare, add your own mirror. The latest slides have also been added tohttp://2009.brucon.org/articles/p/r/e/Presentations.html Thanks for Hackerspace Brussels for making the videos and the volunteers for seeding and spreading the files yesterday. You can now broadcast this!! Thank you!!!

You can get the first #brucon presentations from our website. More will follow.

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…