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After a great first edition in 2009, BruCON will be back in 2010! Two days of trainings and two days of talks.
The Call for Papers (CFP) has been announced and will remain open until 30th of April 2010. Submit directly your propositions via the dedicated tool, here.

I’m back from my daily visit to the FOSDEM. This two-days event organized in Brussels hit the 10th edition! Congratulations! I attended FOSDEM for several years and the success is continuously growing. This is good! It means that the interest in free software is growing too! Even better, like any similar event, it is an [...]

I’m back from the last OWASP (organized together with ISSA) Belgium Chapter meeting. As usual, good times with friends from the Belgium Security landscape . Two topics were covered today. First GreenSQL, a database firewall, then an overview of the mobile malwares by Mikko Hypponen.
Almost one year to the day, I wrote a blog [...]

On the 17th of December, the Belgian citizens (like me) had the “good” surprise from our Minister (certainly not a X-mas gift)! A Royal Decree was published in the “Moniteur” about the tax on the private copy of digital data.
From now (or from 1st of January, I suppose), when you buy a device with any [...]

I read this morning an article in DataNews, a Belgian IT security newspaper, about a big contract won by a security integrator to deploy a brand new e-mail platform for the Belgian Federal Police. Good news for them!
But, why did the journalist disclose in his article sensitive information like the following? (or why did he [...]

Back from an ISSA Belgian Chapter event about DNS & Security. As says Kris Buytaert on his blog: “Everything is a Freaking DNS problem!“.
Today’s speaker was Marc Lampo who has a great DNS experience (a long time ago, he gained several years of experience as hostmaster while working for a Belgian ISP). After reviewing the [...]

C&SAR 2009 (“Computer & Electronics Security Applications Rendez-vous“) was organized in France a few days ago. The topic of the 2009 edition was “wireless security”, covered during three day by a large program of talks.
One of the speakers was Gildas Avoine from the University of Louvain-La-Neuve. He spoke about the security of RFID systems.
According [...]

This afternoon, the OWASP Belgian Chapter organized its annual Benelux Day in Leuven. The event started round 12:30 with a great initiative: a workshop based on WebGoat.
This is an OWASP project which maintains an insecure web application (based on Tomcat) used to teach web security. The proposed lessons cover all the classic vulnerabilities found in [...]

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 softwares, one year of free [...]

Beginning of this year, there was a small buzz in the Belgian security landscape about a RFID card (The BMC – “Belgian Mobility Card“) being introduced by the company in charge of the public transports in Brussels (previous article here).
A few months later, what changed? Almost nothing! If the original planning to deploy the cards [...]