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:
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RSA Conference Europe Day 2
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
RSA Security Bloggers Meetup
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.
RSA Conference Europe Day 1
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
Coming Weeks will be Busy
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
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
For a few years now, several institutions in the United States (Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), and many others) declared October as the month of cyber-security. I find this a really good idea. Unfortunately, all initiatives like “the day of…” or “the month of…”
BruCON Talks Video Mirror
For those who did not attend the BruCON conference last week, the videos recorded during the talks have been released on the BruCON Wiki. Here is a local mirror: A new web attack vector script fragmentation by Stephan Chenette [Download] Attacking backbone technologies by Daniel Mende & Roger Klose [Download]
BruCON is Over…
Sunday… I slept a few hours… Strange feeling, BruCON is already over. But no regrets! It was amazing to participate to this security conference from inside. We can be proud of it: Belgium has now its own conf! Once again, thanks to the core team which organized such great event.
Continuous Monitoring Workshop @ ISACA
This evening, I attended an ISACA Belgium Chapter event about “Continuous Monitoring“. By reading the work “monitoring”, you may think about CPU, memory or complex applications monitoring. In fact, continuous monitoring is a process, using specific tools, to detect compliance and risk issues associated within financial organizations. Today’s speaker was