February « 2014 « BSidesROC

Sponsor Announcement – Secure Network Technologies

For the fourth year straight, Secure Network Technologies has signed on to help make BSidesROC successful! If you’ve never heard of them, you’re missing out on an awesome company. They do everything from traditional pen testing to full scale red team physical security evaluations. They also go above & beyond to help the community, providing…»Read the full article

Announcement: Lightning Talks

The past few years, we’ve done a Lightning Talk track of talks where a few people give 15-20 minute presentations on a wide range of topics. We’ll be doing that again this year except we’ll be opening it up to the public. This is your chance to give a short presentation on something that’s important…»Read the full article

Hacker Battleship

Hacker Battleship is our take on capture-the-flag style hacking competitions. Individuals and teams will complete various challenges in an attempt to discover the battleships on the game board. We’ve redesigned everything from the ground up this year, so we’ll have a new look, and new challenges!

The rules are pretty simple:

Teams register for…»Read the full article

Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks are a group of 15-20 minute presentations strung together that happen in the Workshop track in the afternoon. Instead of the 50 minute talks that we organize in the main track, Lightning Talks are open to the public at the day of the event. That means we don’t know what you’ll…»Read the full article

Introducing the BSidesROC Store

In previous years, we’ve had people get a kick out of buying things like lock pick sets during BSidesROC. This year, we’ve added more items to give you a convenient place to buy hacker gear. So far the items will include:

Official TOOOL “Beginner’s Blend” starter lock pick sets An RTL Software Defined Radio to…»Read the full article