Category: Event

Already the last day of the conference! I could say that hack.lu was a “festival of calc.exe” this year! They popped up from everywhere 😉 We started with Ilja van Sprundel who talked about exploiting Delphi/Object Pascal. Applications written in Delphi are not often targets of attacks but interesting stuff

After some coffee and croissants, the second day started with a speech of the Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade, Jeannot Krecké. He spoke about the importance of security awareness on the Internet and IT infrastructure mentioning the Cyberworld Awareness Security Enhancement Structure (“CASES“) active in Luxembourg. Due to

Go to Luxembourg for the new edition of hack.lu. A three days conference about computer security and impacts on the society. This is the second edition for me. The first day started with workshops. I attended the one about DAVIX: “a live CD for data analysis and visualization that brings

The third day and the conference are now over! I first followed the track about attacking and defending the virtual infrastructure. Dennis Moreau explained the weakest point of a virtual infrastructure then reviewed the different types of attacks. Some of then may affect the global performance of the system (ex:

The second conference day started with a presentation of Jon Colombo about social engineering. Last year, he led a research in UK and unfortunately, as we might be feared, results were scary. Jon gave a complete definition of “social engineering” and explained why “information brokers” can so easily steal personal

I’m back from the Security Bloggers Meetup. It was a greatly organized by Dale Paerson. Beer, food and a thirty bloggers coming from several countries. All ingredients for a cool event. I was (finally) able to meet Twitter followers like Tomasz or Mirko. Thanks Dale! Some pictures are available here.

The first day of RSA Conference Europe is already over! Arrived this morning (up at 4am to catch my train!), the first impression was very positive. This is the first time I attend this conference and it looks very professional. Honestly, I’m also happy to see that the mix between

The two coming weeks will be very “intensive”! Between 20 and 22 of October, I’ll attend RSA Europe 2009 in London. Besides the conference, there will be the Security Bloggers Meetup Tuesday evening. And the next week (28-30 October), go to Luxembourg for hack.lu! I still need to read carefully