This BruCON edition (also called “0x0B”) is already over! This year, we welcomed more than 500 hackers from many countries to follow wonderful speakers and learn new stuff with practical workshops. Like the previous editions, I played with the network deployed for our attendees. Here is a short debriefing of
Yesterday, It was the first time that I heard the expression “Social Engineering” in Belgian public media! If this topic came in the news, you can imagine that something weird (or juicy from a journalist perspective) happened. The Flemish administration had the good idea to test the resistance of their 15K officials
Tonight the first Belgium OWASP chapter meeting of the year 2015 was organized in Leuven. Next to the SecAppDev event also organised in Belgium last week, many nice speakers were present in Belgium. It was a good opportunity to ask them to present a talk at a chapter meeting. As usual,
This morning, I retweeted a link to an article (in Dutch) published by a Belgian newspaper. It looks that Belgian municipalities (small as well as largest) which do not properly secure their data could be fined in a near future! Public services  manage a huge amount of private data about us. They
With a little delay, here is my wrap-up of the last OWASP Belgium chapter meeting. It was held at NVISO, an information security company located in Brussels which is known for its ApkScan tool. After some pizzas, drinks and chats with peers, two speakers came on stage. Amongst known faces, a
Tonight was organized the first OWASP Belgium Chapter of the year. Two speakers were invited, George Danezis and Jim Manico. Same place, same faces and classic introduction by Seba with news about the OWASP foundation and the local chapter. Did you know that the chapter had ten years old last
We are already very close to the EOY and we are all expecting the Christmas break in a few days. Tonight, the last OWASP Belgium chapter meeting for 2013 was organised with the help of another local chapter which was created in 2013: the ISC2 one. Thanks to the F5
A few days ago, I attended an event organized by the Chamber of Commerce in Belgium (ICC Belgium) and the Federation of Enterprises (FEB) to announce with great ceremony the release of the first Belgian Cyber Security Guide. Honestly, this is a great initiative! In the audience, many many infosec professionals were
I’m just back from the first OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting since the holidays are over. This was already the third event in 2013. The next event will be scheduled in December. This time, two great speakers were present. The first one was Giorgio Maone who presented “NoScript for Developers“. Giorgio is the author
BruCON 0x05 is already over! What an exciting week! After months of preparation, the event went very smoothly without big issues. Here is my quick wrap-up. This time, it’s not a wrap-up about the talks. I don’t have time to follow them, keeping an eye on the network all the
