OSINT Challenge 1 - BSides

Prompt

What do you know about BSides cybersecurity conferences?

Answers

Q1 (5 pts) - The first BSides conference started after presenters had their submissions rejected from what cybersecurity conference?
Black Hat USA

Q2 (5 pts) - What city did the first BSides happen in?
Las Vegas

Q3 (5 pts) - What year was the first BSides conference founded?
2009

Q4 (15 pts) - What city was the next BSides conference held in that also coincided with a bigger cybersecurity conference event?
San Francisco

Q5 (5 pts) - What was the first European city to host a BSides conference?
Berlin

Q6 (15 pts) - Three states held BSides conferences in the Eastern U.S. time zone the year after the inaugural one. Name all three of the states in any order.
Delaware, Georgia, and Massachusetts.

Q7 (5 pts) - In April 2026, how many different cities across the globe are hosting a BSides conference event?
17

Steps I Took

I answered this challenge by working through the following sources. To find them, I searched the exact wording of each question and then verified the answer against the source material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_BSides https://bsides.org/history/ https://bsides.org/events/month/2026-04/ https://www.csoonline.com/article/524744/security-b-sides-rise-of-the-anti-conference.html

For Q2, I originally submitted Las Vegas, Nevada, but it was marked incorrect because the challenge expected only the city name. I submitted a support ticket, and they corrected it.