Hello everyone,

Happy February! Let’s meet and learn online this month!

📣 Upcoming Meetup: Do Not Disturb: This Hotel Is Attacking the Internet

A smart hotel’s IoT appliances are compromised, made part of a botnet, and used for a DDoS attack. Your goal? Finding out what happened and how!

For this online event, we have the amazing WICCON 2025 workshop leader Kellamity walking us through an incident-response type investigation. All from the comfort of your browser, using Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and the Kusto Query Language (KQL).

Curious about the blue side of cybersecurity? Enjoying puzzles and detective games? Or needing some exposure to the Kusto Query Language?

Focusing on suspicious network traffic, we will hunt anomalies in the provided dataset on Azure Data Explorer. Using the Kusto Query Language, we will discover who took over the IoT network and how, from reconnaissance to actions on objectives.

🗓 Date: 24 February 2026
📍 Location: Online
🔗 Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/wiccanl/events/313171953/

WICCON 2026 is officially in motion

Yes, October may feel far away, but behind the scenes we’ve already started building WICCON 2026, taking place on 29 & 30 October.

WICCON is more than a conference. It’s a community-driven cybersecurity event focused on knowledge-sharing, diversity, and making space for voices that deserve to be heard. Each year, it exists because people step up early: volunteers who help shape the experience, and sponsors who believe in supporting an inclusive and forward-looking security community.

Right now, we’re opening the doors for:

• Sponsors who want to support a conference that prioritises impact over marketing fluff, and community over exclusivity

• Volunteers who want to contribute their skills, time, or energy to making WICCON happen

Getting involved at this stage means having real influence, on how WICCON is organised, what it stands for, and how it grows this year.

More details about sponsorship opportunities, volunteering roles, and the Call for Papers will follow soon.

For now, consider this your early heads-up: WICCON 2026 is happening, and we’d love to build it together.

https://wiccon.nl/

Final thoughts

Did you know we have a Discord? We do! You can find it here: https://discord.gg/e53rf7hrbK

We have a blog! https://womenofwicca.nl/blog/ Want to publish your own article? Reach out to us.

Do you have a good idea for a meetup? Does the company you work for want to host us so you can showcase your work? Send us a message! We are always looking for new ideas!

See you soon!

Kind regards / Met vriendelijke groet,

Valentine + Chantal + Daniëlle + Ilse

The WICCA Team