I received my Loggly beta account (thanks to them!) a few days ago and started to test this cloud service more intensively. I won’t explain again what is Loggly, I already posted an article on this service. For me, services like Loggly are the perfect cloud examples with all the
Month: December 2010
Zen Attitude!
The coming days will bring a special atmosphere. Christmas and the New Year days are a good occasion to relax and… to take good resolutions! For people involved in information security, a good one could be to adopt the “zen attitude” and try to establish more diplomatic relations with the
My Wish List for 2011
2010 is almost over and 2011 is already at our door! In a few days, a lot of us will (try to) detach from the regular business and go back to family and friends to spend good times. It’s time to make some planning, reserve enough off-days and setup my
Iptables Logs Mapping on GoogleMaps
My Linux servers are all protected by a local iptables firewall. This is an excellent firewall which implements all the core features that we are expecting from a decent firewall system. Except… logging and reporting! By default, iptables send its logs using the kernel logging facilities. Those can be intercepted
Abuse Info Gathering Made Easy
If there is a boring task when you are investigating a security incident, it’s the process of gathering all information related to the involved IP addresses: What are the IP addresses used, routing information (AS), geo-localisation and abuse information gathering. Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote a cool piece of Perl code to
Pirate-moi.com
An interesting initiative from a small team of French guys active in information security. They are organizing a online contest called “Pirate-Moi” (“Hack Me“). The purpose is pretty the same as a classical CTF (“Capture The Flag“) contest held during security conferences: To hack a system! In this case, the
OWASP BeNeLux Day 2010 Wrap Up
Yesterday, the three OWASP Benelux chapters organized together their annual OWASP BeNeLux day. This edition was held at the Fontys Hogeschool in Eindhoven (NL). First detail of this year, the weather conditions! After more than three hours of driving on snowy roads, I finally reached Eindhoven. Just in time for