BalCCon2k25

Version 1.2 Sept. 21, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Future Invaders - Tactical card game for all audiences”.

Version 1.1 Sept. 19, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Pen and Paper One Shot (Pathfinder)”.

Version 1.0 Sept. 18, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Reverse Engineering the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System” by Malware Utkonos (Sept. 21, 2025, 4 p.m. → Sept. 21, 2025, 4:05 p.m.)
• “ORC - a truly adventerous license story” by katzazi (Sept. 21, 2025, 2 p.m. → Sept. 21, 2025, 2:15 p.m.)
• “Pactical Artisanal Pyrotechnics - part II” by Zoz (Sept. 20, 2025, 6:30 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 7 p.m.)
• “Rakija leaks” (Sept. 20, 2025, 9:45 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 10 p.m.)
• “RF 101 - from Hz, to GHz in 1h” by nemanjan00 (Sept. 21, 2025, 5:30 p.m. → Sept. 21, 2025, 6 p.m.)
• “The Geopolitics of Technology and Its Impact on National Security and Statecraft” by Flo (Sept. 20, 2025, 5 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 5:15 p.m.)
• “The Power of a Good RT Infra” by Sandra Bardón (Sept. 19, 2025, 9 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 9:05 p.m.)
• “Prison Break - Kiosk Mode Environments” by IKARUS (Sept. 21, 2025, 12:30 p.m. → Sept. 21, 2025, 12:35 p.m.)
• “Lightning Talks” by Lightning Talks crew (Sept. 20, 2025, 7:45 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 8 p.m.)
• “Making new toolchain for GateMate FPGA” by Miodrag Milanovic (Sept. 19, 2025, 5:45 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 5:50 p.m.)
• “Getting to you via CT Images - The DICOM Protocol, its Use in Cancer Treatment, and its Inherent Vulnerabilities” by Jani Kovacs (Sept. 20, 2025, 5:45 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 6 p.m.)
• “Hacker Jeopardy” by Hetti, cluosh, georg (Sept. 19, 2025, 10 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 10:30 p.m.)
• “Adventures of Wallet Hacking: Chapter 2” by Joe Grand (Sept. 20, 2025, 3:45 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 4:05 p.m.)
• “OpenHarmony OS: A Unified Distributed Operating System” by Lazar Stričević (Sept. 20, 2025, 12:15 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 12:20 p.m.)
• “openCologne and birth of new ULX (ULX5M)” by Goran (Sept. 19, 2025, 6:30 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 6:40 p.m.)
• “Miniac: a RISC-V CPU Based Diagnostics Tool” by NIkola Sokolović, Minela Sultanović (Sept. 20, 2025, 1:25 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 1:40 p.m.)
• “Roll for Encryption” by Pseudoleon (Sept. 21, 2025, 1:30 p.m. → Sept. 21, 2025, 1:40 p.m.)
• “Learn to hack AI by hacking AI” by Satu Korhonen (Sept. 20, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 1:50 p.m.)
• “Closing ceremony” (Sept. 21, 2025, 6:30 p.m. → Sept. 21, 2025, 7 p.m.)
• “Conference badge as a motivator for social interaction” by igor (Sept. 19, 2025, 7 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 7:15 p.m.)
• “ReVault! Compromised by your Secure SoC” by Philippe Laulheret (Sept. 20, 2025, 3 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 3:15 p.m.)
• “Agent 47: LLM-Based Adversary Framework for Real-World OffSec Ops” by Ali Abdollahi (Sept. 19, 2025, 4 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 4:05 p.m.)
• “AI-Assisted Security Automation: Practical experience of building Model Context Protocol(MCP) Servers” by Vlatko Kosturjak (Sept. 20, 2025, 6 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 6:05 p.m.)
• “Why hackers shouldn't get into amateur radio – and why I did it anyway” by Petrus (Sept. 19, 2025, 2 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 2:05 p.m.)
• “Inside the Hacker’s Playbook: How We Stopped a €20M Ransomware Payout” by Joseph Carson (Sept. 21, 2025, 4:50 p.m. → Sept. 21, 2025, 5 p.m.)
• “Advanced Android Archaeology: Baffled By Bloated Complexity” by Mathias Payer (Sept. 20, 2025, 2 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 2:15 p.m.)
• “Practical AWS Antiforensics” by Santi Abastante (Sept. 20, 2025, 1 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 1:10 p.m.)

Version 0.91 Sept. 18, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Lockpicking Corner” by Wolfy, Kamee Kaze

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “The Power of a Good RT Infra” by Sandra Bardón (Sept. 19, 2025, 8:35 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 9 p.m.)
• “Hacker Jeopardy” by Hetti, cluosh, georg (Sept. 19, 2025, 9:30 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 10 p.m.)
• “A Modern Assembler for ROM Reversing” by Travis Goodspeed (Sept. 19, 2025, 7:35 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 8 p.m.)

Version 0.9 Sept. 17, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Payment Village” by Timur Yunusov
• “Improving Ghidra Decompilation with Custom Rules” by cluosh

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “AuthMap - Authorization Logic Mapper for Web Application Security” by Berat Yıldız, Hasan Ekin (Sept. 21, 2025, 1:30 p.m. → Sept. 21, 2025, 1:20 p.m.)
• “Green WiFi - case study in standardisation and regulation” by Amelia Andersdotter (Sept. 20, 2025, 2 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 1 p.m.)
• “Learn to hack AI by hacking AI” by Satu Korhonen (Sept. 20, 2025, 2:50 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 2:30 p.m.)

Version 0.8 Sept. 10, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Green WiFi - case study in standardisation and regulation” by Amelia Andersdotter (Sept. 20, 2025, noon → Sept. 20, 2025, 2 p.m.)
• “Getting to you via CT Images - The DICOM Protocol, its Use in Cancer Treatment, and its Inherent Vulnerabilities” by Jani Kovacs (Sept. 20, 2025, 1 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 5:45 p.m.)
• “Encoding, how does it even work?” by MacLemon (Sept. 19, 2025, 6:35 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 7 p.m.)
• “Attacking USB with Raw Gadget” by Andrey Konovalov (Sept. 19, 2025, 4:35 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 5 p.m.)
• “Workshop: MCU Reverse Sprint” by Zen (Sept. 19, 2025, 2:30 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, noon)
• “Introductory firmware reverse engineering” by Aleks (Sept. 20, 2025, 5:45 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 3 p.m.)

Version 0.7 Sept. 8, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Inside the Hacker’s Playbook: How We Stopped a €20M Ransomware Payout” by Joseph Carson.

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “RF 101 - from Hz, to GHz in 1h” by nemanjan00 (Sept. 21, 2025, 5 p.m. → Sept. 21, 2025, 5:30 p.m.)
• “Closing ceremony” (Sept. 21, 2025, 6 p.m. → Sept. 21, 2025, 6:30 p.m.)
• “Rakija leaks” (Pupin → Lounge)

Version 0.6 Sept. 7, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Security Impress Karaoke” by Kirils Solovjovs (Sept. 19, 2025, 7:35 p.m., Pupin → Sept. 20, 2025, 10:30 p.m., Tesla)
• “Green WiFi - case study in standardisation and regulation” by Amelia Andersdotter (Sept. 20, 2025, 2 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, noon)
• “Androids, Dreaming: Future Memories” by Christina (Sept. 20, 2025, 12:30 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 11:30 a.m.)

Version 0.5 Sept. 7, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “ORC - a truly adventerous license story” by katzazi.

Version 0.4 Sept. 7, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.3 Sept. 7, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “ReVault! Compromised by your Secure SoC” by Philippe Laulheret
• “AI-Assisted Security Automation: Practical experience of building Model Context Protocol(MCP) Servers” by Vlatko Kosturjak

Version 0.2 Sept. 7, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Payment Village” by Timur Yunusov.

Version 0.1 Sept. 7, 2025

We released our first schedule!