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Month: January 2012

First 2012 OWASP Belgium Chapter Meeting Wrap-Up

January 25, 2012 Belgium, Event, Security Leave a comment

A new year started and why change good habits? I’m just back from the first OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting of 2012. Here is my quick wrap-up. The organization remains the same, the first few minutes were dedicated to some news from the OWASP organization given by Seba. A survey was

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Monitoring pastebin.com within your SIEM

January 17, 2012 Security, Software, Websites 57 comments

For those who (still) don’t know pastebin.com, it’s  a website mainly for developers. Its purpose is very simple: You can “paste” text on the website to share it with other developers, friends, etc. You paste it, optionally define an expiration date, if it’s public or private data and your are

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Show me your SSID’s, I’ll Tell Who You Are!

January 12, 2012 Privacy, Security 33 comments

The idea of this article came from a colleague of mine. He wrote a first version of the script described below. I found it very useful and asked his permission to re-use it and to write this blog article. Thanks to him! In the mean time, during my researches, I

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Everything Can Be Outsourced But Not Your Responsibility!

January 9, 2012 Business, Security Leave a comment

Today almost all organizations outsource some of their IT projects to third party partners. Due to the ever changing landscape in information technology, it is virtually impossible for an organization to have internal knowledge in all domains of technology. The web presence is maybe one of the most domain where

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And I Thought to be Protected!

January 5, 2012 Security Leave a comment

The security market is constantly changing! A few years ago, there was the “UTM” (“Unified Threat Management“) market which offered to customers all-in-one solutions (firewall, anti-virus, IDS, VPN, load-balancing, etc). Some of them were close to make coffee! Then, the “Next Generation” wave started. On top of it, all those

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