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SecKC's July meetup is set for Tuesday, July 14, 5 to 9 PM at Knuckleheads Garage in Kansas City! Speakers Bryson 🦄 Bort and John Tuckner will cover two timely topics: cutting through AI vendor FUD and dissecting how browser extension malware operates in the wild. This is a great opportunity for security professionals in the Kansas City area to connect, learn, and get involved with the local community. Event details: https://lnkd.in/erEDrNcV Thanks to Infoblox and Torq for sponsoring this month!

What day is it? It's Friday! Less than 24 hours until the event of the summer! BSidesDSM kicks off at 7:45 a.m. tomorrow, if you want to be first in the door. 8:30 a.m. for Opening Ceremonies! Don't be late or face the wrath of FOMO! Thank you 3000 to our BSides DSM 2026 Sponsors: SentinelOne, Netskope, GuidePoint Security, Secure Point Solutions SecDSM, SHI International Corp., Evolving Solutions, and BSidesKC, Inc!   7:45 a.m. - Registration Opens 8:30 a.m. - Opening Ceremonies 9 a.m. - Talks and Villages officially open - we have an awesome group of speakers this year! Don't forget to say "Howdy!" and "Thanks" to the Sponsors for making the entire event possible! SWAG! 12 - 1:30 p.m. - Lunch at the food truck 1:30 - 5 - Talks, Sponsor discussions on their new tech, and more fun in the Villages! 5 - 5:30 - Closing ceremonies, CTF Winners, Raffle Prizes, etc! 6:30 - 9:30 - After Party - King's Head Private room attached to Magee's Pub - just two blocks west of the FFA Center!   We can't wait to see all of you in the morning - Hack The Planet!

Less than 48 hours until BSidesDSM for 2026! Looking forward to seeing all of you on Saturday morning! Event checklist: 1. Check out the site for the talk schedule and plan your day 2. Don't forget to prep and register if you want to take the HAM radio exam 3. Be ready to chat about infosec in the Podcast village with Reanna Schultz 4. Bring your lockpicks or grab a new set with Toool (The Open Organisation of Lockpickers) 5. Capture the Flag brought to you by our own BSidesDSM Organizers - prizes for the top 3 winners 6. Learn to solder and hardware hack in the Soldering and Hardware Hacking villages 7. Hack live equipment in the Hacking Range 8. Visit our Sponsors - without them all this would not be possible 9. Have fun and learn all the things See you soon! BSides DSM Organizers Team

The pre-con countdown to BSidesDSM begins! You officially have 5 days to grab a ticket, pack your hacker bags full of tech, lockpicks, and all the cables you might need for hardware hacking/the CTF! Only a few electronic badges remain, you really don't want both FOMO and to miss out on points in the CTF do you? https://lnkd.in/g3rn8tR2 #bsides #infosec SecDSM SecKC BSidesKC, Inc

BSidesKC 2026 talks have been posted to the YouTube! Yet another great year of fantastic talks. Check out the ones you missed or want to see a second time! Check them out here: https://lnkd.in/egnZQpSU

TLDR: The SecKC community is raising $6k for Hope House (a local domestic violence nonprofit) and a beloved member has put his rear end on the line to make it happen. Donate at orders.seckc.org and vote which cheek gets the archaic meme tattoo, live on Twitch, at our June 9th meeting. 🙂 I don't post often. Thought I'd wait for an absolutely ridiculous post to share some thoughts on how the cybersecurity community never ceases to impress me. I’ve been helping run SecKC since COVID, and our June 9th meeting is going to be wild: 7 simultaneous speakers & live tattoos. The CDC reports 1 in 3 women & 1 in 6 men experience domestic violence in their lifetime. Within our own haKCer community, there are people who have lived those statistics. Hope House exists to support survivors, and it's a cause that is deeply personal to me. So when the opportunity came up to raise real money for them, through something completely unhinged, the SecKC community didn't hesitate. It started with my offer to donate $100 toward a tattoo if someone got a tramp stamp. Longtime member @sysaaron DM'd me saying he'd do it if we raised $1k for charity. We hit that in a week. So he raised the stakes, $5k more and he'll get an archaic meme tattoo on his rear end, live on stage via Twitch at our June 9th meeting. Your donation is your vote, left or right cheek. We're currently at $2,225.27 of that additional $5k. For some, this is about the laughs. For others, it's about showing up for people in our community who need it most. Even at our most irreverent, we are deeply invested in the safety of those around us. Every dollar goes to Hope House, big check and everything! The guy getting a ridiculous tattoo on stage is just what happens when we get there. Donate at orders.seckc.org

It is a crazy weekend in our house but that doesn't stop the #unpopularopinion: People sleep on smaller regional security #conferences because they don’t come with RSAC or Black Hat price tags. That is a mistake. BSides. GrrCON. CornCon. CactusCon. RejectionCon. ThotCon. WWHF. Pick your flavor...or pick a few! A lot of these conferences have the same caliber of speakers...and often the very same speakers... you’ll find on the big stages, but without the airport terminal craziness, the uber sticker shock, the badge-scanning arms race, and the feeling that you’re one face in a crowd of 40,000 people. At a regional con, you are not buried in a convention center trying to sprint between vendor booths and sponsored keynotes. You are in rooms where you can actually talk to the speaker afterward. You can ask the weird question. You can meet practitioners who are still close to the work. You can build real relationships instead of collecting LinkedIn connections you’ll never talk to again. The big conferences have their place. No question. But if you think value only shows up when the badge costs more than a mortgage payment, you’re missing where a lot of the real community, real learning, and real access actually happens. BL: Sometimes the best conference isn’t the one with the biggest logo. Sometimes it’s the one where you can actually have a conversation. #unpopularopinionguy PS..See you Tuesday at BSidesNOLA!

🚂 LAST CALL FOR SPEAKERS 🚂 There are only 8 days left to submit your talk! The CFP closes on May 15th, and our review board will be making decisions that same week. We’re looking for: • security research • ham radio & RF • hardware hacking • AI projects • maker chaos • weird side projects • transportation/train nerdery • stories from the trenches First-time speakers are welcome. If you’ve built something strange, learned something useful, or have a story worth telling, we want to hear it. All aboard. 🚂 #Hobocon #CFP #CyberSecurity #Hacking #HamRadio #RF #Maker #Badgelife #DEFCON #AI