Happy Monday, all!
If you're planning on coming to our event on June 6, I'd suggest getting your tickets soon -- we sold out completely the last two years. Make sure you reserve your spot for a day of hacking, lockpicking, soldering, and swag for just twenty American dollars.
We couldn’t run this event without the support of our sponsors, so thanks so much for making it possible and helping us to build up the local technology community. See you in June!
A huge thank you to our latest sponsor, our friends at CCADE- Canisius Center for Analytics and Data Ecosystems. CCADE is an initiative that fosters collaboration between academic and industry professionals to support data-driven education, research, and workforce development in analytics.
Challenges will be appropriate for all skill levels, so whether this is your first CTF or your 100th there will be fun to be had.
Tickets are on sale now -- if you're planning on coming, I'd suggest getting them sooner rather than later, we've sold out completely the last two years.
In addition to the standard questions, you'll also be able to get points by participating in the lockpicking and soldering workshops, and we're working on a whole set of Meshtastic challenges as well!
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Nothing says "BSides" like a Capture The Flag contest! Once again, our friends at SkillBit (formerly @metactf.bsky.social ) will be running a Jeopardy-style CTF at our event on June 6.
STUDENTS AND JOB SEEKERS: For the first time this year, we're going to have a resume review workshop! Bring your documents to the conference to get suggestions on how to improve your odds in this tough market. Scheduling details are still being worked out, watch this space for updates!
We'll get to work reviewing everything and should be reaching out to submitters in the next couple of weeks.
Our Call For Presenters closed last night, and once again we had a record-setting number of submissions - thanks to everyone in the community who stepped up and offered to share their valuable knowledge and expertise!
CFP closes tomorrow at midnight!
We couldn’t run this event without the support of our sponsors, so thanks so much for making it possible and helping us to build up the local technology community. See you in June!
CACI develops and delivers premiere cyber technology, solutions, and expertise that empower their customers to conduct offensive and defensive operations, defend critical infrastructure, and maintain information dominance, safeguarding U.S. national security against evolving threats.
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Excited to announce our latest Silver Sponsor for our 2026 event, first-time sponsor CACI International Inc!
It's true.
We couldn’t run this event without the support of our sponsors, so thanks so much for making it possible and helping us to build up the local technology community. See you in June!
St Bonaventure offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in cybersecurity, which equip students with the sophisticated tools necessary to pursue a career in computer crime investigation, information assurance and digital forensics.
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Excited to announce our newest Gold Sponsor for this year’s event, our friends at the St. Bonaventure Cybersecurity program!
Our 2026 Call For Volunteers is NOW OPEN! Come join us and be a part of Buffalo's favorite technology conference. Volunteers get free admission, swag, and a staff-only t-shirt. Click here for more details!
www.bsidesbuffalo.org/get-involved/
Just two more weeks in our CFP - come share your knowledge with the local hacker community, earn some special swag and our undying gratitude.
We're accepting talks in General, Lightning, Introsec, and Hacking is Art tracks. If you're doing something cool, we want to hear about it!
So excited to have you joining us for the first time this year!
We couldn’t run this event without the support of our sponsors, so thanks so much for making it possible and helping us to build up the local technology community. See you in June!
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Excited to announce our first Silver Sponsor for 2026, our friends at Binary Defense! Binary Defense provides managed detection and response, threat hunting, co-managed SIEM, and other security services to work with and augment their partner organizations.
If you'd like to earn one of these and be ready for the return of cold weather, submit something to our Call For Presenters! We're still accepting submissions through the end of the month for General, Lightning Talk, Introsec, and Hacking Is Art tracks. Come share your expertise!
A sneak preview of this year's speaker scarf -- this might be the best design yet.
If you would like one of these of your very own, now's your chance! Follow this account, repost this thread, and comment with which of the four designs you would like. We'll randomly select two winners at the end of March and mail you the scarf of your choice along with some stickers and other swag.
Each year is a unique design, and as you would expect from an event born in Buffalo the scarves are toasty warm and very practical for the wintertime.
Four soccer-style scarves with BSIDES BUFFALO woven into them.
GIVEAWAY CONTEST: For those who don't know, these are our Speakers' Scarves - we give these away as a thank you gift every year for the people who volunteer to present at the conference.
ICYMI: Tickets are on sale NOW for Buffalo's favorite hacking conference. Get them while you can, we sold out entirely in 2024 and 2025.
As always, tickets are free for students or job seekers with a submitted resume; we bundle those resumes up and share them with our sponsors. The submission link is on the ticket page, and please be patient, it's a manual process.
See you in June!
Happy Friday, all! A reminder that tickets go on sale for our event on March 1, just two short days from now. Don't miss your chance at a full day of technical talks, swag, lockpicking, soldering, lunch, stickers, CTFs, and general hacker shenanigans for just twenty American dollars.