In Helsinki, the police catched a car thief with the help of … a mosquito! They found a mosquito full of fresh blood in astolen car. They analyzed the DNA and it matched a bad guy already recorded in the police database. Pwned! ;-) Read the BBC News article.
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ISSA Belgian Chapter Event: New ISSA event: Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Back from Microsoft Belgium where occurred an ISSA Belgian Chapter event about security of Microsoft Windows Server 2008. The speaker, Ronny Bjones, started with some historical facts about the Microsoft products and security. He explained why Microsoft had lot of security issues in the past, due to the way developers
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
And What About the “Zero-Knowledge” Risks?
A new 0-day exploit is in the wild for Internet Explorer 7 since yesterday. Of course, this is a big issue and countermeasures must be deployed as soon as possible. A lot of security solutions companies try to use the 0-day effect as a marketing element “Ã la Barack Obama”:
Juniper ScreamOS
Graeme Neilson, a security consultant working for Auro Software make a presentation during the last Ruxcon conference about a trojan developed for the ScreenOS running on Netscreen firewalls: “The presentation covered Graeme’s research on how he’s developed a trojan ScreenOS operating system that when loaded onto any Juniper Firewall turns
Catched By Facebook!
Big BrotherFacebook is watching you! You were often warned about the risks of social networks. A lot of personal information are available and do you always really trust your friends? It’s so easy and tempting to accept new requests. The following story was reported in Melbourne: A group of young
Are We All Dangerous?
Warning! Warning! You just reached a dangerous website! I’m surprised that my IP address isn’t yet blacklisted by Barracuda Central! I was offline for 48 hours, now back online and it seems that the buzz about Pieter De Crem is still growing! According to our Defense Minister, all the blogs
Safe File Eraser on Linux
Working as a security consultant, my laptop contains a lot of confidential data: corporate data (emails, procedures, contacts list, etc) and, even more critical, temporary customers data (reports, documentations, network topologies, packet captures, etc ). That’s why data protection is a key point for me. First, data are encrypted using
Merry (Safe) Christmas!
We are just one month away from Christmas! Traditions, nice time with your family and friends, holiday. Internet will be even more used to spread greetings cards, to find the best gifts… Malicious activity will certainly grow in the same way: Cybercriminals release Christmas themed web malware exploitation kit Take
The Right Words at the Right Place
I read an interesting post on itmanagement.earthweb.com. It covers the problem that almost all of us have: it is difficult to find the right words during a presentation. Terms must be properly chosen depending on the audience! If you don’t success, you won’t be able to captivate the attention of