Hacker Con Badges

CyberThreat

CyberThreat 2026

The planned November 16-17, 2026 CyberThreat conference at the Roundhouse in London. CyberThreat and SANS official pages advertise a hackable-badge challenge or competition in the 2026 programme, and the official site's benefits copy now labels the artifact a Digital Event Badge that delegates wear and hack throughout the event; the platform behind that label, participant allocation, technical implementation, and delivery remain unpublished.

Roundhouse, Camden, London, United Kingdom · United Kingdom · 2026

CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge

CyberThreat's official 2026 site and SANS registration page advertise an interactive hackable-badge challenge and a Hackable Badge Competition for the November London event, and the official site's benefits copy now labels the artifact a Digital Event Badge that delegates wear and hack to explore, attack, and solve challenges throughout the event. They establish a planned 2026 badge activity with an official form label, not a released platform specification, attendee-wide issue, or completed handoff.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge official 2026 programme statement

planned badge challenge

2026 interactive hackable badge challenge

CyberThreat's official site says delegates can attempt an interactive hackable badge challenge and labels the artifact a Digital Event Badge to wear and hack. That supports a planned badge-related activity with an official form label, but does not state the number of badges, who receives one, the platform behind the digital artifact, challenge rules, entry requirements, timing, scoring, prize terms, technical surface, safety boundary, or completion outcome.

Compatibility: CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge

CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge official 2026 registration listing

registration-package activity

In-person Hackable Badge Competition listing

SANS lists a Hackable Badge Competition among the in-person CyberThreat 2026 inclusions. The page does not say whether that listing grants a physical badge, which registrants may participate, whether there are badge variants, or how the competition operates.

Compatibility: CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge note

2024 lineage non-transfer boundary · separate year-specific source records · 2024 archive retained separately; 2026 design unannounced

CyberThreat's site still hosts rich 2024 Secure Impact badge and walkthrough material, including hardware and firmware challenge evidence, while its 2026 pages give only high-level hackable-badge activity wording. No reviewed source says that Secure Impact, the ATmega1284P/FTDI design, the nine challenges, or any 2024 mechanics will return in 2026.

The catalogue preserves the 2024 technical dossier without silently carrying its components, creator, challenge count, software, or delivery model into the planned 2026 record.

CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge note

hardware, firmware, and challenge-implementation gap · official high-level challenge wording · digital artifact label published; no technical release recovered

The sources use hackable-badge and competition language, and the official event page now labels the artifact a Digital Event Badge, but they publish no platform or app behind that digital label, no PCB, controller, components, display, power system, connector, radio, sensor, schematic, BOM, Gerber, firmware, source, binary, protocol, toolchain, flashing path, challenge rules, scoring model, test plan, safety guidance, or licence.

The record does not turn a planned interactive challenge and digital-artifact label into an electronic specification, a reproducible workflow, or a safe operating instruction.

CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge note

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement

No CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge 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 United Kingdom record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.

CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge note

planned badge and fulfilment boundary · official 2026 event and registration pages · planned event; post-event evidence pending

CyberThreat and SANS advertise a 2026 hackable-badge activity before the event. Neither source confirms a final badge design, manufacture, shipment, quantity, ticket-tier entitlement, participant allocation, collection process, delivery, replacement policy, completed competition, or individual handoff.

The catalogue treats this as a source-backed planned badge challenge rather than a confirmed distributed 2026 conference artifact.

Resources

CyberThreat 2026 official event page official event page · CyberThreat's official page identifies the November 16-17 Roundhouse, London event and advertises an interactive hackable badge challenge. Its benefits copy labels the artifact a Digital Event Badge with the wording You don't just wear it, hack it - explore, attack and solve challenges throughout the event, while the event description cites team problem solving and hackable badge challenges. It still does not name a platform, app, PCB, or controller, and does not describe delivery or technical implementation. SANS CyberThreat 2026 registration official registration page · SANS's official 2026 event page gives the dates and Roundhouse location, says CyberThreat 2026 features hackable badges, and lists a Hackable Badge Competition in the in-person offer. It does not say that every registrant receives a badge or identify the competition's hardware or software.

Sources

CyberThreat / SANS Institute: CyberThreat Retrieved 2026-09-28 · Primary official source for CyberThreat's planned November 16-17, 2026 London event and its stated interactive hackable badge challenge. The September 28, 2026 recheck found the benefits copy labelling the artifact a Digital Event Badge that delegates wear and hack to explore, attack, and solve challenges throughout the event. It is a programme and artifact-label statement, not a 2026 hardware, allocation, fulfilment, or image-rights release. SANS Institute: SANS CyberThreat 2026 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official registration source for the November 16-17 Roundhouse event, the statement that the 2026 programme features hackable badges, and the in-person Hackable Badge Competition listing. It does not identify a badge unit, recipient, technical architecture, challenge implementation, or final handoff.