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To surf the web, you need a specific application: a browser. Today, this peace 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On Friday, I talked about the Freedom Not Fear event with an action day scheduled for yesterday. This initiative focuses on the retention problematic of the telecommunication data (Internet, mobile phones, …). But tracking does not only occur for digital data. Stores are another good example.
Yesterday, I went with my wife to a local distribution [...]

Bad day today… My iPhone died! Yesterday it was 100% functional and today refused to boot or charge!? No reaction event after a hard-reset and a few hours of charging… This irritates me at the highest level. Well!
No alternative, I went to my local dealer and explained the problem. Of course, they can’t do anything [...]

It is never too early to give some security recommendations! My first daughter became a fan of a book series called “Max & Lili”. Those comics books (only available in French if I’m not wrong) are written by Serge Bloch and Dominique de Saint-Mars.
Each volume focuses on a specific theme (around school, friends, family, social [...]

“Cloud computing”! This is a hot topic in IT security for a while. I won’t explain why security is so importing within the cloud. To have a good overview, I recommend to follow Craig Balding’s blog.
For sure, you already have personal data stored on the web. You use webmail services like Google, you post pictures [...]