CodePros

08/06/2026

This year's Challenge Series survey is up! Please fill it out. This is how we determine next year's theme.

GopherCon

07/01/2026

Welcome to this year's Challenge Series — a Jurassic Park-themed Ca...

06/25/2026

Excited to be running a workshop at this year's GopherCon alongside the Challenge Series! If you're not registered yet what are you waiting for?!

See you in !

One leaked database password. Four hours later, full admin access. 🔐

In this half-day workshop, Benji Vesterby will walk through how attackers chain exploits together and how developers can stop them before they become incidents.

Using a real Go application, you'll learn how to identify threats, map attack paths, analyze trust boundaries, and prioritize risks using proven frameworks like STRIDE. Along the way, you'll see how a single compromised credential can evolve into a much larger security problem.

Whether you're new to threat modeling or looking to bring more structure to your security reviews, this workshop will give you a practical framework for thinking like both a defender and an attacker. 🚀

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09/15/2025

It's been a whole two weeks now since we completed the latest Challenge Series at GopherCon 2025, and we're already laying the groundwork for next year.

Over the last two weeks, our feedback form has been busy, as Gophers from across the world have made sure to help us shape future Challenge Series events to be even better than this year's. A very important part of this year's feedback form is voting on the shortlist for next year's theme. As voted by you, and your fellow Gophers, the Top Four Themes for Challenge Series to pursue next are:

Dune
Jurassic Park
Cyberpunk
Portal + Half Life

All of these themes received at least 25 points worth of votes, and all are under consideration for next year's competition, though we do have a couple of specific front-runners within this set.

While most of the themes besides our Top Four were fairly neutral in score (averaging about 2 points), we had another standout from the themes, voted COMPLETELY into oblivion with -25 points:

The X-Files

As we get further from this year's competition (and closer to next year's), expect more teasers and information about what to expect in 2026.

08/29/2025

Bye New York! It was a blast.

Untill Next Time...

08/29/2025

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08/29/2025

📊 Matrix Challenge Series — Final Stats 📊

🕶️ 196 registrations → 85 crews
👥 26.3% of conference attendees broke out of the system
🧩 87 challenges available — only 5 remain unsolved
• 1 unused speaker flag
• 3 hidden flags
• 2 eternal secrets, unsolved across all years

⚡ 769 correct submissions vs. 7248 incorrect
(only 9.6% correct)

🏆 26 prizes awarded to 22 winners
🔥 7 crews broke 50% of all points
💻 Only 1 user crossed that mark solo

👨👩👧 Largest crew size: 18
Most: 5 or fewer hackers holding the line

The Matrix fought back hard — but the resistance was stronger.

08/29/2025

Life's challenges got you down? Need a new keyboard?

If you want a challenge you can solve join us next year at GopherCon 2026 for the Challenge Series!

08/29/2025

Congratulations to the winning team Lemon Tree!

08/28/2025

Hey Folks - Here is the feedback form for this year's Challenge Series event:
https://forms.gle/zXu2bkNEwPnznrAH8

Please take some time after the competition ends to fill out the feedback form and help us improve the competition.