BSidesROC is over. There’s no reason to really give you a blow by blow but I think it might be entertaining to see some of the feedback we received from attendees. Both years that we’ve done BSidesROC we’ve sent out a survey email right after the event with a very quick survey that gave us some feedback on what people thought about the event. I really do take it seriously but also some of the responses were very interesting.

BSidesROC is this Saturday at 8am. Holy crap. I wanted to give a final post before the con so you can figure out what to expect the day of the event. If you haven’t signed up, you should get a ticket right now. Do so on the website. http://www.bsidesroc.com Capture All The Flags We will have a capture the flag style competition. The open competition will involve you and your team being rewarded for cracking security challenges.

There’s only a few days left for this years BSidesROC on 5/12/12. “Rochester’s first and only hacker con”. << Do you know why we say that? Not because we’re the only computer security conference, and not because we think other security conferences suck (well some do), but it’s because an info sec event is not the same as a hacker con. I’m talking about Rochester Security Summit for example. It’s been going on for years run by the local ISSA chapter and they do a good job.

The first official meeting of the Rochester TOOOL chapter happened this last Thursday. Jason Ross, the organizer of the group, you may have met at 2600 meetings, BSidesROC, seen present at BlackHat, or whatever infosec you’ve been to in the area. He’s been working with TOOOL.us to get a chapter started locally which makes Rochester a part of a small group of TOOOL chapters in the US. The Open Organization Of Lockpickers is organized in the U.