BSides Goa 2024 · India · 2024

BSides Goa 2024 SecOps Hackable Badge

Vendor-booth BCPen/CPen challenge badge

A conservative BSides Goa 2024 vendor-booth badge record for SecOps Group's Hackable BCPen and CPen badges, documented on the SecOps Hack the Badge page and tied to the BSides Goa 2024 booth/free-exam challenge trail.

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EventBSides Goa 2024

SeriesBSides Goa

LocationPlanet Hollywood Beach Resort, Utorda, Goa

CountryIndia

People

Authors & Credits

badge challenge platform

Vulnmachines

Platform linked by SecOps as the place to solve the badge hacking challenge and receive binary codes needed to unlock the badge.

Source

badge challenge publisher

SecOps Group

Publisher of the Hack the Badge page documenting the Hackable BCPen/CPen badges, booth/free-exam framing, hardware interface, and binary unlock challenge.

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event publisher and event context

BSides Goa

Official publisher of the BSides Goa 2024 site used for dates, venue, schedule, and Security BSides context.

Source

Why It Mattered

It adds another Indian Security BSides lineage with source-backed badge hardware and challenge behavior while keeping the record scoped to a sponsor/vendor-booth artifact rather than an official all-attendee conference credential.

Hardware

The SecOps page describes pre-programmed Hackable BCPen and CPen badges with LEDs around the circumference, star, and SecOps logo; four buttons for LED control, programming mode, binary 0, and binary 1; a programmable chip; registers; a two-way on-off switch; a 3V cell; and a cell holder.

Software & Apps

The recovered source documents two badge hacking challenges, limited badge access and full badge access, where solvers use Vulnmachines to obtain binary codes, enter those values through the P, 0, and 1 buttons, blink selected LEDs, and reset the badge with 00000000. No firmware image, source repository, schematic, or challenge binary archive is claimed.

Lore

BSides Goa's official site places the 2024 event at Planet Hollywood Resort, Goa from April 25-27, 2024. SecOps says visitors could claim a free exam at its BSides Goa 2024 booth and use the badge-hacking challenge to unlock badge behavior.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge challenge source-backed

Binary-code challenge unlock flow

The page documents limited-access and full-access challenges whose solved binary codes are entered through the badge buttons to blink different LED sets and unlock behavior.

Compatibility: BSides Goa 2024 SecOps Hackable Badge

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challenge platform link source-backed

Vulnmachines solve path

SecOps directs badge participants to Vulnmachines to solve the badge hacking challenge and receive the binary codes needed to unlock the badge.

Compatibility: BSides Goa 2024 SecOps Hackable Badge

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hardware interface source-backed

LED and four-button badge interface

The Hack the Badge page lists LEDs around the circumference, star, and SecOps logo plus buttons for LED control, programming mode, binary 0, and binary 1.

Compatibility: BSides Goa 2024 SecOps Hackable Badge

Source

vendor booth badge source-backed

Hackable BCPen and CPen badge pair

SecOps describes Hackable BCPen and CPen badges and explicitly invites BSides Goa 2024 booth visitors to claim a free exam through the badge trail.

Compatibility: BSides Goa 2024 SecOps Hackable Badge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

missing rights-cleared image note

No BSides Goa 2024 SecOps Hackable Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The India record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and BSides Goa 2024 official site, ticketing trail, and SecOps Group Hack the Badge page.

page-media rights boundary note

The SecOps page includes media and an Open Graph image, but this pass did not recover a reusable license or explicit permission basis for publishing a badge image in the catalogue.

The record remains text-and-source only rather than copying page media, screenshots, social photos, or generated badge art.

Confidence: local image policy
Status: image withheld
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy, BSides Goa official site, and SecOps Hack the Badge page.

technical-source gap note

The public source lists badge components and challenge behavior, but no schematic, BOM, PCB files, firmware image, source repository, challenge binaries, or exact chip identity were recovered in this pass.

The hardware and software notes stay at the exact level supported by the public SecOps writeup until a badge-team archive appears.

Confidence: source-backed but incomplete
Status: needs hardware archive
Timeframe: BSides Goa 2024 badge pass
Source note: SecOps Hack the Badge page.

vendor-booth classification note

The SecOps page proves a Hackable BCPen/CPen badge challenge tied to the SecOps booth at BSides Goa 2024, but does not prove the artifact was the official all-attendee BSides Goa admission badge.

The catalogue classifies this as a vendor-booth challenge badge artifact and avoids overstating event-wide distribution.

Confidence: source-backed but scoped
Status: documented
Timeframe: BSides Goa 2024 event pass
Source note: SecOps Hack the Badge page and BSides Goa 2024 event site.

Resources

BSides Goa 2024 official site official event page · Official event site documenting BSides Goa as a community-driven BSides-approved event, April 25-27, 2024 dates, Planet Hollywood Resort, Goa venue, schedule, and conference framing. BSides Goa 2024 ticketing page event ticketing trail · Ticketing source corroborating the April 25-27, 2024 Goa event, Planet Hollywood Beach Resort venue, training days, conference day, and Security BSides lineage context. SecOps Hack the Badge badge challenge page · Primary badge source documenting Hackable BCPen and CPen badges, BSides Goa 2024 booth/free-exam context, pre-programmed badge behavior, LED/button components, binary-code unlock path, and Vulnmachines challenge flow. Vulnmachines badge challenge endpoint challenge platform · Challenge platform linked from the SecOps Hack the Badge page for solving the badge hacking challenge and obtaining binary unlock codes.

Sources

BSides Goa: BSides Goa Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event-context source for the April 25-27, 2024 BSides Goa Security Conference, Planet Hollywood Resort venue, schedule, and community-driven BSides framing. SecOps Group: Hack the Badge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge-source page for the Hackable BCPen and CPen badges, SecOps BSides Goa 2024 booth context, pre-programmed LED/button hardware, programmable chip/register mentions, two badge challenges, Vulnmachines solve path, and binary unlock/reset behavior. Townscript / BSides Goa: Bsides Goa Tickets Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Ticketing and event-description source corroborating the dates, Goa venue, training days, conference day, debut-Goa framing, and Security BSides lineage context.