08 May: Brucon Workshop #4: VOIP workshop

As we are finishing our main speaker track, expect some exciting news in the coming days. We’ll begin with announcing another workshop! Joffrey Czarny and Sandro Gauci will be giving a workshop about VOIP security. Content of the Workshop: The Goal of this workshop is to learn the risks and the weaknesses of default deployments of VoIP and the threaths posed by the misconfiguration of some telephony features. The workshop will provide specific guidelines and…

19 Apr: Reviewing the Call for Papers

After a small Easter break, the Brucon crew is reviewing all the submitted proposals. We want to thank everyone who submitted a presentation, workshop or training and we are very happy with the result. We are doing our best to review everything and respond to everyone in the next 2 weeks. The Crew. (Photo under creative commons from sutti.’s photostream)

27 Mar: Brucon Workshop #3: Wireless auditing

We all know that WEP encryption is not much better then no encryption at all. But how strong is WPA encryption today? Should you move to WPA2? How secure is your wireless network against rainbowtables? Find out how to audit your own network during our wireless workshop and how to secure it. Bio:Thomas d’Otreppe, creator of aircrack-ng, is a graduate ofthe Haute Ecole de Bruxelles (informatics high school in in Brussels). He hasalso designed WiFu,…

23 Mar: Toool will be present at Brucon

The dutch wing of Toool will be present at Brucon. Toool is the The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers, a growing group of enthusiasts interested in locks, keys and ways of opening locks without keys. The Open Organization of Lockpickers (TOOOL) was founded in Amsterdam. Meanwhile, we have groups in Eindhoven (Netherlands) and the USA as well. We regularly meet to practice lockpicking and discuss techniques used in locks. Every year, championships are being held in…

10 Mar: Didier Stevens will give a Digital ID workshop during Brucon

We are happy to announce that Belgian Security Researcher and Blogger Didier Stevens will provide a Digital ID workshop. Didier Stevens (CISSP, GSSP-C, MCSE/Security, …) is an IT Security Consultant for Contraste Europe currently working at a large Belgian financial corporation and maintains a security blog at http://blog.didierstevens.com. If Didier is not playing with Google adwords, he is playing with pdf readers, twitter controlled xmas trees or playing with RFID tags.This is just one example…