Surprise! The OWASP Belgian Chapter sent a late notification to announce an extra chapter meeting with a special guest: Joe McCray from Learn Security Online. Today’ topic was “Advanced SQL injections“. Joe is a well known security specialist with high skills in penetration tests. He was in Belgium to provide
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Hack In The Box Visits Europe
Hack In The Box (or “HITB“) is a well known community on the security landscape which defines itself as “a single place, or community, on the Internet where people and corporations can go to find security information and the latest news from the underground and computer technology sectors“. HITB maintains
OWASP Belgium Chapter Meeting Wrap Up
I’m back from the latest OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting. Belgium is a small country with lot of political issues (off-topic here 😉 ) but also a great electronic identify card or “eID“. Almost all Belgian citizens have an eID for a while (8.2 millions of cards have been delivered up
ISACA-BE Round Table: the Impact of Cloud Computing
“Cloud computing”… A buzz word for a while now! It’s a fact that security professionals will face, one day or another, a situation where the company applications and data will be hosted “in the cloud” and whatever your activity is! (auditor, system admin, investigator, etc). This evening, the ISACA Belgium
Security Training Again and Again!
If you are working in the “IT security” field, you must keep your knowledge up to the highest level. It’s a matter of “live or death” and continuous training is mandatory. That’s why big names in the certification world like ISC² or ISACA impose their members to collect a minimum
ISSA-Be Chapter Wrap Up: Cybercrime
I’m back from the last ISSA-Be meeting held in the Verizon offices in Leuven. Today’s topic was “Cybercrime: The actors, their actions, and what they’re after“. The speaker was Matthijs van der Wel, EMEA, manager of Verizon Business’ Forensics practice, who contributed to the Data Breach Investigation Report. The talk
Belnet Security Conference Wrap up
I’m back from the second edition of the Belnet Security Conference organized today in Brussels. Belnet is the “Belgian National Research Network“. In other words, this is the federal organization which connects universities, governments infrastructures, schools to the Internet using high-speed pipes. Since the beginning of 2010, they also extended
Attending Security Conferences from a Social Point of View
BlackHat Europe 2010 is already over! I spend good times (who don’t!) and the huge number of canceled flights (due to the ash cloud coming from Island) did not changed my point of view. I successfully escaped from Barcelona with @corelanc0d3r and we were back in Belgium after a mix
BlackHat Briefings Day #2
Second briefings day always in Barcelona. For the first talks of the day, I decided in last minute to change my wishlist. I attended the presentation of Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo called “Practical crypto attacks against web applications“. Their started from a common error in security: “encryption is not
BlackHat Briefings Day #1
After two days of intensive training with SensePost (“Hacking by Numbers”), the briefings started today. Jeff Moss opened the keynote session with fresh information about the conference. First, the number of registrations increased (+100) compared to the last year. This is a good news! The crisis did not affect the