Back from the second OWASP Belgian Chapter meeting! This event had only one speaker but which one: Gary McGraw himself. What a wonderful speaker! He knows his topics and is able to keep the audience aware with a typical sense of humor. I liked! Gary is the author of several
Category: Belgium
Back from FOSDEM
Back from FOSDEM! A few days ago, I posted here my schedule and it didn’t changed. The first three presentations were in the same room and covered security topics. The FOSDEM is an event for open-source developers and not fully dedicated to security like BruCON but developers must be aware
First OWASP Belgian Chapter Meeting of 2009
I’m back from the first OWASP Belgian Chapter meeting
Introduction to Nmap Scripting
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
FOSDEM’09 is at our Door!
The 2009 edition (9th edition) of FOSDEM is already at our door! This event is scheduled on 7 and 8 February in Brussels (in the ULB campus). It’s now time to make my selection of sessions I’ll attend. The whole planning is available online. I plan to go on Sunday
BruCON Episode #1
Tadaaaaaa! BruCON is alive! A security conference was really missing in Belgium. That’s fixed now. The first edition of BruCON will be held in Brussels, 18-19 September. I’ll be present for sure. Check out the website for details.
STIB: Security by Obscurity
A lot of blog posts already covered the security issue which affected the STIB (The public transportation company in Brussels). I”ll not rewrite the facts here. The Belgian French television made a story [in French] about this problem. The journalist interviewed the STIB spokeman. During the interview, he said: “Il
Nothing happened in Belgium?
I read today that the Belgian crisis center decided to raise the alert level due to the Isreali-Palestinian conflict. This alert level is managed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I decided to visit their website for more information. Maybe more details will be provided online: what’s the current status?
dns.be: More Anycasting
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
Simple DLP with Ngrep
DLP stands for “Data Loss Prevention” or sometimes, “Data Leak Protection“. Companies primary goal is to make business. And their activities rely on their data (customers, databases, research results, statistics, source code, …). DLP is a security process which takes care of: monitoring, identify and protection of the data. The