Rochester's longest running hacking and information security meetup group. A community of locals interested in discussing security, sharing knowledge, and enjoying technology.
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Location: Global Cybersecurity Institute at RIT
2600 wishes you a chaotic, signal-jammed 4th of July — may your fireworks sync with your packet sniffers and your grills run on open-source firmware. Celebrate freedom like a misconfigured router: loud, exposed, and probably on fire. God bless America and all unsecured Wi-Fi.
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Location: Global Cybersecurity Institute at RIT
Buffalo’s Security B-Sides continues to impress as a grassroots infosec event bringing together hackers, pros, and curious minds from across Western New York. With hands-on villages, diverse talks, and a uniquely chill Rust Belt vibe, it’s become a regional staple. Whether you’re into red teaming or just wing-eating, B-Sides Buffalo delivers.
Location: Global Cybersecurity Institute at RIT
We met. Again. Things were said. Some of them even made sense. Wi-Fi was spotty, snacks were weirder than usual (who brought durian chips?), and the projector developed sentience mid-presentation. No major breakthroughs—unless you count discovering the password to the locked vending machine panel. We’ll probably meet again. Probably.
Stay curious. Or at least caffeinated.
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Rochester 2600 hosts information security professionals, IT and operations teams, hackers, nerds, lawyers, law enforcement, activists, and anyone that's interested in learning about security. It's a place to meetup and share information, ideas, and technical information witha group. Attend a meeting to learn about information security from professionals and amateurs alike.
2600 is a reference to 2600: Hacker Quarterly. A periodical that's been around since the 80's. We host our meetings on the first Friday of every month because that's when all 2600 meetings should be hosted. We don't have any official relationship with the org, it's just a platform to gather around.
If you've never attended a meeting, we are generally loosely organized. We present on the latest security news of the month and usually follow it with at least one presentations from one of our attendees. Expect to laugh and interact with the rest of the group. Bring a laptop if you wish but it's usually unnecessary.
Might as well.
Every time I come here I learn something new I should be concerned about.
I thought "hackers" were trolls on 4chan but I realized that they're mostly professionals that are eager to learn and share knowledge.
I attended these meetings so that I could learn how to trade body parts on the "dark web". They didn't help me at all but I still learned something.
The monthly news review is useful but also very depressing when you can't tell if the headlines are from 2020 or 2005.
If you're interested in finding out more, consider RSVP'ing to a meeting so we know how many people might show up. Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates. Hangout with some of us in the #security channel of RocDev.