As said in a previous post, during a few minutes this afternoon, Google decided to tag all the websites as “potentially dangerous”. This was quickly fixed but immediately reported by several sites: SANS ISC Slashdot The Register (I’m sure it will be a buzz in the coming hours!) Google is
Month: January 2009
Google Suddenly Decided that the Whole Internet is Dangerous?
What happened to Google this afternoon (16:00 GMT+1)? Suddenly, all websites are reported as “suspicious”:
DLP – Where are my Data?
Today, I attended a meeting at a well-known security firm (no name given here). The topic was a presentation of their DLP (or “Data Loss Prevention“) solution. I’ll not come back on the product itself. Such meetings, organized by companies to present their own product, are not very relevant. Often,
SANS Reading Room: Security Incident Handling in Small Organizations
Potentialy, all companies can face IT incidents (attacks, stolen data or material, disasters, …). Unfortunately, they cannot react in the same way: Compared to the small business, big companies are able to dedicate more resources to incident handling. Worst, in case of incidents, smallest organizations will suffer a lot more!
FOSDEM’09 is at our Door!
The 2009 edition (9th edition) of FOSDEM is already at our door! This event is scheduled on 7 and 8 February in Brussels (in the ULB campus). It’s now time to make my selection of sessions I’ll attend. The whole planning is available online. I plan to go on Sunday
VMware to VirtualBox
Ok, next step in my VirtualBox adventure! I successfully installed VirtualBox on my new laptop, fixed some performance issues. Next one… Even if VirtualBox is a wonderfull free application, VMware is a standard in the virtualization world. Lot of products are released for demos or presales activities as VMware guests.
BruCON Episode #1
Tadaaaaaa! BruCON is alive! A security conference was really missing in Belgium. That’s fixed now. The first edition of BruCON will be held in Brussels, 18-19 September. I’ll be present for sure. Check out the website for details.
DNS queries for “.”
As described by the Internet Storm Center in the last Sunday diary, my name server was also hit by this attack today. 380000 queries for “.” where sent to bind. For those who’re not experienced with the DNS protocol, querying for a dot (“.”), ask the name server to answer
How do Companies Adapt to the Crisis?
First, adapt the marketing! Review your logo: Source: tosorto.zip.net.
Speed up VirtualBox Shared Folders on XP Guests
I’m using a Windows XP guest in VirtualBox in a intensive way for a few days. The host and guest exchange their files via a shared folder. It’s a very convenient way to exchange data between virtual machines and the guest. In my case, the shared folders reside on an