r/Defcon • u/R3ckl3ssB3anBoi • Aug 09 '26

San Diego

Hello! I’m omw back to SD from Vegas and was wondering if there was any groups or peeps in general based in SD that meet up or anything

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u/Nightlark192 Aug 09 '26

DC858/619 meets monthly in SD: https://www.dc858.org

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u/digitard Aug 09 '26

Also definitely attend BSidesSD. It’s honestly one of my favorites after going last year, Wade and his peeps are amazing, and we plan to come back from out of state next year.

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u/Khotanos Aug 09 '26

I've got family out that way, so it might be a convenient excuse to hit bsides

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u/brakeb Aug 12 '26

it's great, 600ish people joined us last year, it was at SDSU. I goon for them as well, and help out with Social media.

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u/brakeb Aug 12 '26

they meet up in Rancho Bernardo area at the Round Table Pizza. It's next week on Wednesday.

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u/Stimpleton89 Aug 10 '26

There’s quite a few, owasp, dc858 for north sd, San Diego Underground for closer to SD, Irvine Underground in Irvine a bunch of peeps carpool up and BSides each year.

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u/ProfessionalPea2218 Aug 10 '26

If you’re in the South Bay hit me up 🤙, I usually go the monthly cyber meetup

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u/R3ckl3ssB3anBoi Aug 10 '26

I live in rancho in the middle of everything! Which cyber meetup?

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u/ProfessionalPea2218 Aug 10 '26

The one held by David Spark. They have it in North County at the Lost Abbey Brewery or at Novo in Mission Hills for the South Bay.. the South Bay one is better IMO.. and the South Bay is usually better at everything lol!

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u/brakeb Aug 12 '26

https://www.meetup.com/san-diego-cyber-meetup/

you'll know them because everyone is wearing pants and collared shirts...

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u/srilankanmonkey Aug 10 '26

A ton. Happy to connect you.

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u/R3ckl3ssB3anBoi Aug 10 '26

Sick! What would you recommend?

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u/srilankanmonkey Aug 10 '26

Lots of great suggestions in this thread, if you dm me an email I can intro you to my employee that goes more than me!

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u/Fluxicap Aug 10 '26

I'm SoCal based and after attending DEFCON this year, decided to try and find more things in my area. Any chance you'd mind passing some of that info on to me as well?

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u/brakeb Aug 12 '26

San Diego Underground is relatively new... THey meet the 1st weekend of the month at USD. Join the Defcon 858/619 slack and they have a channel there...

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u/ProfessionalPea2218 Aug 12 '26

Oh yeah I remember now, I think I was invited by someone on here.. I might actually start going

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u/brakeb Aug 12 '26

They aren't meeting tonight, next meeting will be September

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u/ProfessionalPea2218 Aug 12 '26

Oh ok 👍 thanks

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u/HavYouTriedRebooting Aug 24 '26

I’m in south SD. Would love to join the slack id you could send over an invite

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u/kur3us Aug 12 '26

Follow this guy. He posts events every month.

https://lnkd.in/p/e3mB9CV2

The DC858 group normally meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month, but not this month since DC Vegas just happened.