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I’m back online after a few days off in France with my wife, kids and… less Internet connectivity (but never far from a WiFi hotspot to check urgent mails). Helas, everything has an end and I’m already back in Belgium… Step one, process the huge monstrous backlog of pending information: multiple mailboxes, Tweeter feeds, RSS [...]

The next SOURCE Conference will be held in Barcelona in September (21 & 22). If you plan to travel across Europe in September, have a look at the current schedule and stop in Spain. Immediately you will notice that talks are split in two categories: “Security & Technology” and “Security & Business“. Some security events [...]

ENISA published in September 2009 a press release about the huge increase in ATM fraud. The title spoke by itself: “Annual cash machine looses in Europe approach EUR 500 million: ENISA provides advice for consumers.“ The last talk scheduled during HiTB Amsterdam last week was canceled and replaced in last minute by the one of [...]

Second day is over! And with the same fun as yesterday. After a (too short) night, some coffee was welcome just before the keynote presented by Mark Curphey from Microsoft. Mark revealed 10 crazy ideas that might change the information security industry with a little cost in money but a big impact (like the OWASP [...]

The first day of the HiTB security conference is already over! HiTB (“Hack in the Box“) organizes conferences for a while in Dubaï and Kuala Lumpur but this is the first time that an event is held in Europe and not too far from Belgium. I left home very early this morning to avoid the [...]

Yesterday, I made a trip to Paris to attend the “Nuit du Hack 2010“. It was already the 7th edition. The event, organized between 16h and 7h, was split in two parts: a set of talks about security topics and, starting from midnight, a CTF contest. I had the chance to get one of the [...]

Surprise! The OWASP Belgian Chapter sent a late notification to announce an extra chapter meeting with a special guest: Joe McCray from Learn Security Online. Today’ topic was “Advanced SQL injections“. Joe is a well known security specialist with high skills in penetration tests. He was in Belgium to provide trainings and it was a [...]

Hack In The Box (or “HITB“) is a well known community on the security landscape which defines itself as “a single place, or community, on the Internet where people and corporations can go to find security information and the latest news from the underground and computer technology sectors“. HITB maintains a portal, publishes an eZine, [...]

I’m back from the latest OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting. Belgium is a small country with lot of political issues (off-topic here ) but also a great electronic identify card or “eID“. Almost all Belgian citizens have an eID for a while (8.2 millions of cards have been delivered up to today). Coupled with a PIN [...]

“Cloud computing”… A buzz word for a while now! It’s a fact that security professionals will face, one day or another, a situation where the company applications and data will be hosted “in the cloud” and whatever your activity is! (auditor, system admin, investigator, etc). This evening, the ISACA Belgium Chapter organized a round table [...]