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Mr Stefaan De Clerck , the Belgian Justice Minister announced a new plan to fight (cyber-)criminals. Belgian ISP’s could be asked forced to keep a trace of all communications via e-mail for two years. Read the article on the RTBF website in French (or via Google Translate). The main reason invoked by the Minister is [...]

If there was only one annoying operation for me, it will be to search contact information about IP addresses! Often, network administrators and security guys have to found out to who is assigned a given IP address (example: when analysis logs or doing forensics searches). Useful information linked to IP addresses are contact information (technical, [...]

During the month of April, the Belgian authorities decided to prevent a very controversial web-site to be accessed by Belgian citizens (read my previous post). According to ZDNet.be, the idea of a firewall is back on the table. The article states that host or domain names could be blocked via an official procedure (primary targets [...]

isc.sans.org announced today the Alpha availability of the DShield Web Honeypot: “The goal of the Web honeypot project is inline with the original DShield project, the data collected through the sensors feed the Dshield web database where human volunteers as well as machines pour through the data looking for abnormal trends and behavior. In addition, [...]

An article has been published this weekend in the NY Times about a hot topic: “Do we need a new Internet?“. To resume, the journalist, John Markoff, explained that the current Internet is not able to survive to attacks from malicious codes (viruses, malwares and other nice things). Unfortunately, deploying a brand new Internet (based [...]

My last post was a little bit funny but the quote came from a French newspaper article about a judgment which can have an effect similar to an earthquake in France! It’s about the “privacy” aspect of IP addresses. A previous justice decision made by Court of Appel in Rennes was broken by another Court [...]

As said in a previous post, during a few minutes this afternoon, Google decided to tag all the websites as “potentially dangerous”. This was quickly fixed but immediately reported by several sites: SANS ISC Slashdot The Register (I’m sure it will be a buzz in the coming hours!) Google is a major player on the [...]

What happened to Google this afternoon (16:00 GMT+1)? Suddenly, all websites are reported as “suspicious”:

First post of 2009, not too late to wish you all the best for this year! Even if IPv6 is at our doors, the version 4 of the Internet Protocol will still be present for a (very) long time. IP is an old protocol and lot of vulnerabilities were already discovered (and maybe others will [...]

dns.be is responsible of the .be (Belgium) TLD. In a few words, this organization manages the administrative tasks to register domains in the .be zone and also maintains a set of .be-root servers which forward requests to the right name servers to resolve .be domains. At the moment, nine servers are used by dns.be: ;; [...]