I’m just back from the last ISSA Belgium event organized tonight at Verizon premises. Wade Baker, director of risk intelligence for Verizon and creator, author and primary analyst for Verizon’s DBIR series, presented the analysis, findings and recommendations of the 2011 version of Verizon’s DBIR. If you are an infosec
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BSidesLondon Wrap Up
It was a long but wonderful day! I woke up very early to catch my train from Brussels to London and arrived just in time. The room was already full of security guys, some well known faces and new ones. Let’s grab some coffee, some muffins and my bag full
BSidesLondon D-Day – 2
Still two times to sleep (like say children) and it’s the first edition of B-Sides London! The laptop is patched and hardened, tickets are printed, my slides are (almost) ready, Wednesday in the early morning, I’ll travel to London. It’s time to prepare my selection of talks! As usual, I’ll
La Nuit du Hack in Paris
“La Nuit du Hack” is a well-known event organized since 2004 (!) by Sysdream and HZV in Paris. I went to the 2010 edition, my wrap-up is available here. This last edition was victim of its success and access to the boat (yes, it was organized on a boat!) was
InfoSecurity.be
Just after BlackHat Europe, InfoSecurity Belgium was organized in Brussels this week. Something completely different: other atmosphere, other people, business oriented. It is the place to be for Belgian people working in information security. To make a rough comparison, suits and ties are at InfoSecurity what t-shirts are at BlackHat.
#BlackHatEU Day-2 Wrap-up
BlackHat Europe 2011 is already over! I’m waiting for my flight at Barcelona airport with Peter from Corelan Team, writing my wrap-up for the second day! It started with a talk by Sebastian Muniz & Alfredo Ortega: “Fuzzing and Debugging Cisco IOS“. Cisco IOS images are huge binary compressed files
#BlackHatEU Day-1 Wrap-up
The first day started (too) early with Rafal Los’s (@Wh1t3Rabbit) briefing about “Defying Logic – Theory, Design, and Implementation of Complex Systems for Testing Application Logic“. Rafal explained some techniques not “brand new” but which are really interesting. The goal of application logic testing is to discover what an application
BlackHat Europe 2011
BlackHat stopped in Barcelona for the 2011 European edition. Second time at the same place, the “Palau de Congressos de Catalunya“. Same format as the previous editions: two days of trainings and two days of briefings. Strange, lot of trainings were canceled! Is it due to the crisis and less
BSidesLondon is on its Way!
The first edition of BSides London is moving forward at good speed. The crew of volunteers worked hard and announced today the schedule. During the call for papers, 54 submissions were submitted then registered visitors were invited to vote for their preferred subjects. Fifty-four submissions for the first edition of
My FOSDEM Yearly Visit
This weekend is the FOSDEM event held in Brussels. This is a major event for the open source software landscape in Europe. Thousands of geeks coming from several countries to discuss about software freedom during a full two-days planning. All major projects are represented, core-developers are present and always available