Confirmation has been received from all speakers!  We’re excited to add the following talks to our line up: Build It Hacking The Wireless World – Software Defined Radio Exploits – Balint Seeber OSX Vulnerability Research and Why We Wrote Our Own Debugger – Tyler Bohan and Brandon Edwards Belay ItRead More →

ShmooCon and The Shmoo Group are pleased to announce the speakers for ShmooCon 2016.  We’re still waiting on confirmation from just a few folks, but here’s the bulk of the line up. We’ll have an update for you on ticket sales soon too.  We think we have a working solutionRead More →

When ShmooCon ticket sales go well, we’ll get a few comments on scarcity of tickets or maybe some statements of disbelief about the time it took, but it’s all quite minimal. When ticket sales don’t go well, the volume of the comments goes to 11 and the topics run theRead More →

Thanks for the help testing the website tonight. The stats have proven to be very useful. We’re still working with our hosting company to dig through the data and see where we stand. After we finish our analysis, we’ll post results and info here. We’re still holding off on salesRead More →

We’d like to run one last test. The hosting provider is on board to monitor performance, and we’re standing by to analyze the data. At 8pm EST 12/2, we’d like as many people as possible to hit human-registration and we’ll see what happens. While we know the load won’t beRead More →

Ok. Not only are we on a bigger set of iron, but now we’ve optimized caching to hopefully take the load off the origin servers. As a point of reference, this afternoon even after we were on the new server set, we were seeing peaks of 50 requests/sec with ~50%Read More →