Finally, Belgium will have an official CERT (“Computer Emergency Response Team“). This is a long story already covered a few times in my blog (in October 2008 and November 2008). But, finally one year later, our CERT is almost alive! It seems that the birth is difficult: Not yet officially
Month: September 2009
Firefox Banned in Walloon Administrations
Do you know the latest Belgian joke? As lot of Belgian citizens, I’m bullet-proof against Belgian jokes, they are part of our life. But this time, it affected me! According to the following article (in French, Google translation here), Firefox is temporary (?) banned from all the workstations used in
BruCON Talks Video Mirror
For those who did not attend the BruCON conference last week, the videos recorded during the talks have been released on the BruCON Wiki. Here is a local mirror: A new web attack vector script fragmentation by Stephan Chenette [Download] Attacking backbone technologies by Daniel Mende & Roger Klose [Download]
Strike Can Affect Security
In these times of crisis, many companies have launched plans to optimize their costs. Unfortunately, the management decisions often directly affect the people: staff reduction, higher pressure, increase of production rates, etc. If no agreement is reached between the management and unions, strikes may affect some services. To strike is
BruCON is Over…
Sunday… I slept a few hours… Strange feeling, BruCON is already over. But no regrets! It was amazing to participate to this security conference from inside. We can be proud of it: Belgium has now its own conf! Once again, thanks to the core team which organized such great event.
Looking for Monitoring Tools? Check out monitoringforge.org
A new website opened yesterday: monitoringforge.org. The purpose is to centralize in one place a lot of open source monitoring tools, going from full monitoring suite to simple scripts ready to use in your daily job. I found this a very good initiative. Why? When we speak about “security”, we
Continuous Monitoring Workshop @ ISACA
This evening, I attended an ISACA Belgium Chapter event about “Continuous Monitoring“. By reading the work “monitoring”, you may think about CPU, memory or complex applications monitoring. In fact, continuous monitoring is a process, using specific tools, to detect compliance and risk issues associated within financial organizations. Today’s speaker was
Tracked down into the Stores
On Friday, I talked about the Freedom Not Fear event with an action day scheduled for yesterday. This initiative focuses on the retention problematic of the telecommunication data (Internet, mobile phones, …). But tracking does not only occur for digital data. Stores are another good example. Yesterday, I went with
Freeeeeeeeedom!
I just found an interesting event scheduled on next Saturday: Freedom Not Fear 2009. The origin of this initiative came from Germany where authorities are known to have a strong position on data retention and Internet/mobile phone users tracking. The goal of this event is to protest against the growing