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A news coming from Australia became a hot topic in lot of security forums and mailing lists today. The Australian authorities brainstormed about new ways to fight the cyber crime. One of the submitted project is forcing people to install (and activate!) an anti-virus software to be able to access the Internet. In case of [...]

It was discussed during the last edition of BlackHat Europe: Maltego v3 was almost ready to be released. Today is the D-day: The latest version is out! A quick reminder for those who still not know the product: “Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application. It will offer you timous mining and gathering [...]

The debate is ongoing for a while and has partisans on both sides: Can an IP address be considered as private data? Europe said yes and the “fight” between privacy protectors and authorities is still present. Having your IP address considered as private from a legal point of view or not, it’s always interesting to [...]

I received a notification from my bank about the availability of my new credit card. This morning, I went to my local agency to pick it up. Because I don’t receive a new credit card every six months, I always discover the new procedure implemented by my bank. This time, good surprise: the new procedure [...]

There is an ongoing communication campaign for a big interim company on the Belgian radio stations. The message they are broadcasting is: “Do not rely on your company physical assets but more on people“. And they are right! People are the most important value of a company. Even if you, manager, have the best infrastructure, [...]

User authentication… If there is a long and never ending story, it is definitively this one! All of us have plenty of passwords to write on post-its keep in mind. They are several ways to increase the user authentication safety. By forcing very difficult passwords and learn them, by using strong authentication or by using [...]

From time to time, surveys reveal human behavior that are scary. On 2008, a survey revealed that woman love chocolate more than password security. I just read another one on a Belgian news website: To stay safe, the Belgian citizen is ready to sacrifice some of his privacy! (Source: rtbf.be – article in French). This [...]

Last week, I had a very interesting meeting with the Belgian FCCU (“Federal Computer Crime Unit“) about the security of “public” networks. The FCCU is the Federal Police division involved in  all kind of computer forensics investigations. By the way, they also have their own Linux live-CD called “Lnx6N4” which proposes a compilation of useful [...]

To surf the web, you need a specific application: a browser. Today, this piece of software is delivered by default with all operating systems and becomes more and more used, even for non-related Internet stuff (Lot of applications or devices are manageable using a web interface). For some companies, the browser will even replace the [...]

The 2010 edition of the Data Privacy Day will be held on the January, 28th. This initiative has a dedicated website: dataprivacyday2010.org. The goal is to create more awareness about your online privacy: “Data Privacy Day is an international celebration of the dignity of the individual expressed through personal information. In this networked world, in [...]