This picture has been taken in an industrial environment but could fully match in IT security too! For those who don’t speak French nor Dutch, it says: “Your principal safety responsible is in front of you“. Stickers are placed on mirrors in the toilets. Let’s imagine the same security awareness
Month: June 2009
0wn3d by A Google Car!
I was driving into Brussels this afternoon and saw two Google cars. The second one stopped just in front of me at a traffic light. The cameras were recording (I saw some activity on the LEDs on top of the cams). I wrote down the place and time. Let’s see
Monitoring is (Also) a Process!
A well-know Bruce Schneier’s citation is “Security is a process, not a product“. Monitoring your infrastructure is fully part of your security policy. You don’t have only to deploy security blocks (applications, servers, appliances, …) to build your security perimeter(s), you also need to take care of them via monitoring
BruCON Volunteers Meeting
Back from the latest BruCON volunteers meeting! Meetings will be held every two weeks until the event. There is so much things to do but it’s so exciting. It promises to be a great event! Don’t forget to register (still six days of early birds ticket price) We are also
iPhone Tethering Howto
In the long list of new features brought by the new iPhone firmware 3.0 comes “tethering” in my personal top-ten! What’s this? Tethering means a way to connect to the Internet from a device (usually a laptop computer using a mobile device as modem/router. More info are available on Wikipedia.
Dear Google, I Have a Message For You!
Dear Google, some messages for you! Same story has the one of teenager who made a giant penis on the roof of his parents’ house, but this time on a car. I took the picture in a parking not far from Brussels, Belgium. The message is clear 😉
RSA Software Token for iPhone
Since the 6th of June, a great application is available (for free) in the AppStore. RSA released an iPhone version of its software token! I already spoke about strong authentication on this blog. To resume, strong authentication is achieved by mixing at least two different types of authentication methods from
Do You Trust Your Framework?
Frameworks are developer’s best friends. Frameworks are sets of libraries, scripts or piece of code reusable by developers. To make things more simple, why re-invent the wheel? There exist frameworks for all development platforms like .Net for Microsoft IIS or Zend for PHP. ZionSecurity, a Belgian security firm, released a
Where are My Processes?
This screen capture shows a ‘top’ running on a multi-CPU server (4 x quad-core)… Now, I can fully understand the real value of the hot key <1>(*) 🙂 (*) from the top man page: “Toggle_Single/Separate_Cpu_States On/Off – This command affects how the ’t’ command’s Cpu States portion is shown. Although
Facebook Cybersquatting Soon?
Will Facebook once again make a buzz? Saturday, June 13th starting at 06:01am, Facebook users will be able to choose a username to customize their profile URL. Something like http://www.facebook.com/username/. After DNS cybersquatting, will we see a new effect of Facebook cybersquatting? There is already a FAQ available about this