We have a date, we have a time: The second round of tickets for #BSidesVienna will start on Sunday 26.10.2025 at 19:00 Vienna time UTC+2! Do not miss it, this might be you last chance. Spread the word!

Sponsor Spotlight: Thanks to slashsec Red Teaming GmbH for sponsoring the afterparty for #BSidesVienna! They focus on Red Teaming and are always looking for talented offensive security professionals with a real hacker mindset. You can check them out at slashsec.at/en

PSA: If you do not need the ticket for #BSidesVienna anymore for any reason, please return it by canceling your order. You can do so with the link you received after your order. Others will then get the chance to reserved that ticket.

All tickets for round one are gone, good job everybody. If you did not get a ticket for #BSidesVienna, a second round will be announced here shortly - stay tuned!

We added the option for you to tell us which T-shirt size you would prefer. Please use the option to help us order the right sizes - no guarantees though ;). Also, all data will be deleted after the #BSidesVienna is over.

Thank you for the many workshop and talk submissions! We are working on the review. However, it is a lot and may take some time. We want to give each submission careful consideration.

The countdown has officially started: the first round of tickets will be released Wednesday, 15.10.2025 at 13:37 Vienna time UTC+2! Spread the word!

Wanna make sure you are on the list? Why not volunteer at the event. Contact us here or at [email protected], no prior knowledge needed. You have to have the Signal messenger ready for on site communication.

Our pretix is cooking something, this year attendees will get tickets, sponsors will get tickets, speakers will get ticket, everyone will get a ticket. When? It will be announced soon. Stay tuned!

Sponsor Spotlight: Thanks SBA Research for making this free event possible by sponsoring this years #BSidesVienna on the gold level! You can check them out at www.sba-research.org.

Surprise: the #BSidesVienna CF* is extended until 11.10. If you thought you missed your chance, you didn’t! Talks, workshops, rookie track—we’re still looking forward to your ideas. cfp.bsidesvienna.at

The #BSidesVienna CF* is still open and we’re ready for your ideas—talks, workshops, and rookie track submissions welcome. Whether it’s your first time or your fiftieth, we want to hear from you! cfp.bsidesvienna.at

#BSidesVienna is free by design—but it runs on sponsor support. Your company can support us and get more than good karma: visibility on shirts, badges, website, big screen ads during breaks—plus event tickets, exhibition space, and more. bsidesvienna.at/sponsorlevel

Calling all makers, breakers & teachers! Workshops are debuting at #BSidesVienna 0x7E9. It’s the first time—your chance to set the tone. CFP is open now. cfp.bsidesvienna.at

New to speaking or just feel safer in a smaller room? The #BSidesVienna rookie track is for you: max 50 ppl, chill vibe, mentors on request. Just select “rookie track” in the CfP and adjust the time if 30 min isn’t your fit. cfp.bsidesvienna.at

Ready to challenge minds, share hacks, or teach something hands-on? The #BSidesVienna Cf* for 0x7E9 is now officially OPEN. Whether it’s a talk, a tool, or a technique—if it sparks curiosity, we’re listening. And yes, the rookie track is back. cfp.bsidesvienna.at

Lockpicking? Of course! But this year, #BSidesVienna is cracking open some extra workshop slots. If your idea involves breaking, building, or teaching something useful — CfP and CfW will launch together soon. Get your ideas ready!

It begins! On November 22nd, 2025, #BSidesVienna is back at Urania Sternwarte. Fresh insights, familiar faces, and the same legendary venue. More to come—stay tuned. bsidesvienna.at/venue/

Interesting stuff to learn about LLMs there internal workings and how to trick them into doing what you want! @bsidesvienna.at #urania #llms #security

@bsidesvienna.at nice to be here, best location in vienna!

If you are going to BSidesVienna today, please remember that the U1 doesn't run between Reumanplatz and Schwedenplatz! There are various Trams that can you take to close the gap, but it will take additional time!

Tickets are still being returned so make sure to check your inboxes if you are on the waiting list! If you no longer need your ticket please return it, other might use it. #BSidesVienna

We are happy to support this years BSides Vienna security conference and contribute to the exchange of the IT security community! Hope to see you there!

Also, for one, I would like to thank Nside Attack Logic who can help you with all kinds of offensive security consulting needs, and they are even looking for pen testers! (www.nsideattacklogic.de)

Excited to speak at @bsidesvienna.at later this week about tracking #Predator #spyware, its current status, and how sanctions & public exposures are affecting its operations: cfp.bsidesvienna.at/bsv2024/sche...

If you have a ticket and cannot make it, please return it, we have over 60 people on the waiting list who would surely love to be able to attend the event!

Only a couple of days left till #BSidesVienna! Please be sure to return your tickets if your are not able to visit the event on the November 23. There are many people on the waiting list, do not let a ticket go to waste please. Thanks!

Cannot remember if we annouced the location, so worst case, here again, we will be back at Urania Sternwarte. Best you take the public transport (U1, U4 or one of the many trams) to Schwedenplatz and then do a hop, a skip and a jump and be there. www.openstreetmap.org/way/9703218

Also giving thanks to cert.at for sponsoring us at the Bronze level. Their help with us being able to put on the Event is greatly appreciated. If you don't know them yet, they help keep Austria safer in that cyber space! You can check them out here: cert.at

Btw, the last few tickets are sold tonight at 19:00 CET, yes local time!

Now that we annouced the final batch of free tickets, here one of our sponsors who make the free event possible! Thanks to ZTP.digital (ztp.digital) who offer all kinds of IT(-Security) Services, so I am sure they have something on offer for you.

If you missed out on tickets there will be a second chance on Sunday, 03.11. at 19:00. And if you misse out even then there is the B Sides in Dresden too. I heared they still got tickets! (bsidesdresden.com#tickets)

Continuing with our sponsorship shout outs: Thanks for condignum (www.condignum.com) for sponsoring the event at the Bronze Level.

We have gotten a pretty much finalized shedule, you can check it out here: cfp.bsidesvienna.at/bsv2024/sche...

So, we can finally tell you more about tickets! There will be two rounds of tickets with the first round being 23.10@13:37 o'clock. Be quick, historically they got sold out pretty quickly.

Continuing with the sponsor shout outs. Certitude Consulting is supporting us to be able to make the event happen. You can check them out over at: certitude.consulting

We finally got around to review all the presentations you sent us, over 40 of them! Sadly we cannot accept all of them. :/ The first round of acceptance E-Mail got send, please tell us if you cannot make it so that we can back fill it with another amazing talk!

Also, thank you to one other sponsor! We have to thank NVISO who are sponsoring us for the first time. You can check them out over at www.nviso.eu/de

Btw, only seven days to go for our CFP, if you don't want to deal with the ticket roulette, why don't present and set the universe (or at least the Urania) on fire! (Please don't do it literally, our review team isn't a big fan of such proposals....) cfp.bsidesvienna.at/bsv2024/cfp

Our third sponsor shout out goes to SBA Research, who do all kinds of cyber cyber security, so go check them out and thank them for making the event possible! www.sba-research.org #BsidesVienna

Continuing to thank our sponsors who make the event free and awesome. This time we would like to thank the Austrian Institue of Technology, who, when they aren't doing all kinds of awesome research are sponsoring this event. Check them out at: www.ait.ac.at

There is a new BSides Event in Dresden. They will debut this year on December 7th, go and check them out. Their CfP is open right now! Thank you for being our Community Partner @BsidesDresden bsidesdresden.com

Now thanking out sponsors without this lovely event couldn't be so free and accessible! Todays shout out goes to "slashsec Red Teaming" who make this event possible by sponsoring at the Silver level! If you want to check them out you can do it on this website, www.slashsec.at! #BSidesVienna0x7E8

We promised you an update to a location and you get it now, after last years editon on a boat, we are going back to the observatory to overserve amazing talks! We are back at the Urania, amazingly central, much beautiful: www.openstreetmap.org/way/9703218

We are also looking for sponsors! If you want and can support the event please reach to us out either via socials or via [email protected]

So we are in the waining days of the cfp, if you want to present something you better get around to submitting it! cfp.bsidesvienna.at/bsv2024/cfp

How the tickets will work will be annouced once we know how many seats we can offer at our amazing location, which is a secret, ofc!

Btw, did you know that we have a cfp open, of course you did! But if you didn't you have the great chance of submiting your amazing presentation over @ cfp.bsidesvienna.at/bsv2024/cfp

Also, if you want to present your surely amazing talk at this years edition, well we now got a CFP! cfp.bsidesvienna.at/bsv2024/cfp And new, we are planning to do a rookie track, if you are new to this whole presenting at conferences thing, we really want to encourage you to submit (your paper)!

We got a date, I repeat, we got a date! We will meet with quite a few of you lovely people on 23.11.2024 in Vienna, location to be annouced, all we can promise it will be lovely!