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The blog has been moved to a new hardware. Please report any error or issue! Happy reading!

Like I wrote yesterday, the next Black Hat conference will start in less than 2 days now. The two first days will be dedicated to trainings. The briefings (or talks) are scheduled during the two remaining days. The schedule has been published and it’s now time to make some (difficult) choices. The list of speakers [...]

ixquick.com is a search engine amongst lot of others. But it claims to protect the visitors by keeping no trace of the search queries nor any other sensitive information. More classical search engines do not hesitate to collect and store information about you. They also claim that those data are used to offer you more [...]

The very first version of the UNIX operating system was born in Augustus 1969! Its early name was Multics (“Multiplexed Information and Computing Service“). Years after years new branches started to build a huge family of different operating systems, all of them descending from the same origin. It has always been my preferred environment and [...]

As you probably see, the blog has been revamped today. I liked the old theme but the fixed width was really annoying. The new look is based on the Atahualpa theme. There are for sure some minor problems to fix in the CSS code but feel free to give your input!

A reader suggested to not require user registration to post comments on this blog. This could increase the number of comments and the exchange of point of views… As I’m always open to suggestions, let’s test if it’s positive (more comments and no spam of course). Feel free to post your comments!

Woooow! Today I reached 1000 posts on my blog! I started “/dev/random” in January 2003. Why? I don’t remember exactly but the name says it: a potpourri of everything coming to my mind but always related to “IT”. Months after months, posts were oriented to my favorite topic: IT security. I don’t have thousands of [...]

I’m excited! I received my first phishing call today I received a call from a hidden number, picked up the phone and heard a message in English saying something like: “Congratulations! You just have won a free Caribbean cruise! To reclaim your prize, press 9. That’s the nine-key on your telephone.” My reaction was to [...]

All people working with networks know the wonderful tool called Nmap. Basically, Nmap is a network scanner. It allows you to detect hosts on a network and services running on them. Just type “nmap <hostname|ip>” to perform a simple port scan. But Nmap can do much more! Host discovery, multiple scan techniques, version description and [...]

I just realized that this blog just turned six years old! The first article (a simple test) was posted on January 14th 2003. The oldest pictures are missing (due to a migration to WordPress a few years ago) but all articles remain on line