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Month: November 2009

SHODAN, The Computer Search Engine

November 27, 2009 Security, Websites 2 comments

Search engines are well-known on-line tools. But not only websites can be indexed. They are plenty of search engines to find multimedia content, news and more. A new one is born: SHODAN. From the quick guide: “SHODAN lets you find servers/ routers/ etc. by using the simple search bar up

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Will Belgium Build a new Botnet?

November 23, 2009 Belgium Leave a comment

The title is a bit catchy but you will quickly understand why. Today started a new commercial offer promoted by the Belgian authorities: Start2surf@home. To help to reduce the technology gap between the Belgian citizens, a package is now available at a very attractive price: a laptop, a pack of

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Fuzzing a Car Multimedia System?

November 16, 2009 Hardware 4 comments

Fuzzing is a new way to test the security of a system or an application by sending garbage or badly formated data. This attack may crash the target system or, in worst cases, produce unexpected results. In my new car, I’ve a complete multimedia system (GPS, radio, GSP, MP3, onboard

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You’ve a SIEM? And Now?

November 15, 2009 Business, Security Leave a comment

“Log Management”, “SIEM”, “Correlation”, “Incident Management”, more and more organizations have a SIEM project in the pipe. SIEM means “Security Incident & Event Management“. Just to remind you, a SIEM is a set of tools which helps to collect and analyze logs from several sources on a corporate network. Basic

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What’s Behind Microsoft COFEE?

November 11, 2009 Forensics, Software 6 comments

It was announced a few days ago: Microsoft COFEE has been leaked on the wild Internet! Microsoft COFEE stands for “Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor“. This “forensic swiss army knife” is available for free to police forces around the world to conduct official forensics investigations. Note: It’s reportedly illegal for

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Listen to EuroTrashSecurity

November 3, 2009 Security Leave a comment

EuroTrashSecurity goes live for the first episode! The story is quite simple: a bunch of European security professionals thought there was not enough information about the security landscape in Europe. There are already plenty of excellent security podcasts but all of them lack of stories happening on the old continent.

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