This BruCON edition (also called “0x0B”) is already over! This year, we welcomed more than 500 hackers from many countries to follow wonderful speakers and learn new stuff with practical workshops. Like the previous editions, I played with the network deployed for our attendees. Here is a short debriefing of
Last Tuesday, I launched a small challenge to win a ticket for the BruCON conference. The challenge was solved in approximatively 20:30 and I received the first correct submission of the hash at 23:30 (congratulations to Quentin Kaiser!). It’s time to give you the solution to this small challenge. It
The use of a wall of sheep (or WoS) is nice to raise the security awareness of your audience. A WoS is a tool used to demonstrate what can happen when users connect to a wild network without a minimum level of security. The non-encrypted traffic is analyzed and evidence of bad behaviour is displayed publicly
Wow, 10Â years already! In a few weeks, this is the 10th edition of BruCON or the “0x0A edition“. If you know me or follow me, you probably know that I’m part of this wonderful experience since the first edition. I’m also sponsoring the conference through my company with a
BruCON 0x09 is over! It’s time to have a look at the data captured during the last Thursday and Friday. As the previous years, the setup was almost the same: An Internet pipe with a bunch of access-points, everything interconnected through a pfSense firewall. The guest network (dedicated to attendees)
The eighth BruCON edition is already over! Don’t expect a wrap-up because I just don’t have time. I’m always keeping an eye on the attendees’ bits & bytes! Based on the first feedback that I received from attendees and speakers, it was another good edition but, from a network point
Once again, here is my quick review about the BruCON network that we deployed for our beloved attendees! Yes, we are glad to take care of your packets during the conference. Nothing changed since the last edition, we deployed the same network in the same venue with the same controls
During the last BruCON edition, I grabbed some statistics about the network usage of our visitors. Every years, I generate stats like the operating systems types, the top-used protocols, the numbers of unique MAC addresses, etc. But this year, we also collected all traffic from the public network. By “public“,
BruCON 0x05 is already over! What an exciting week! After months of preparation, the event went very smoothly without big issues. Here is my quick wrap-up. This time, it’s not a wrap-up about the talks. I don’t have time to follow them, keeping an eye on the network all the
BruCON is fast approaching! In a few weeks, hackers will invade the center of Ghent! This year, we will celebrate the fifth edition of this conference! Already five years and our motivation remained the same, even more, it increased! I’m speaking here about myself but I’m sure that my colleagues
