A few weeks ago, I reviewed Georgia’s book about penetration testing. In the same topic (pentesting), I was asked to review another one which focus on shell scripting using the bash shell. Keith Makan is the author of “Penetration Testing with the Bash Shell“. Bash is the default shell on many UNIX
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Check Point Firewall Logs and Logstash (ELK) Integration
It has been a while that I did not write an article on log management. Here is a quick how-to about the integration of Check Point firewall logs into ELK. For a while, this log management framework is gaining more and more popularity. ELK is based on three core components:
Password – (noun) A Reminder for Your Dog’s Name
Aaaaah… Passwords! Why write a blog article about them. Everything has alreay been said about passwords. Everybody hates them because they are hard to remember, because we should change it regularly, because we have way too much of them. They are often present in security awareness campaign (see the article
Book Review: Penetration Testing – A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking
A few weeks ago I bought Georgia Weidman’s book about penetration testing: “A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking“. Being overloaded by many projects, I finally finished reading it and it’s now time to write a quick review. Georgia is an awesome person. There are not many recognized women in the information security
Offline Malware Analysis with Host-Only VirtualBox Networks
Following the presentation that I made at the RMLL 2014 last week, I slightly changed my malware analysis setup. The goal is to make it fully operational “offline“. Indeed, today we are always “on“, Internet is everywhere and it’s easy to get a pipe. However, sometimes it’s better to not send packets
RMLL 2014 Security Track Wrap-Up
I’m just back from Montpellier where was organised the 2014’s edition of the RMLL (“Rencontres Modiales des Logiciels Libresâ€) or LSM in English (“Libre Software Meetingâ€). This is a huge event similar to the FOSDEM in Brussels where people who love free software exchange views, researches and make some networking.
Hack in Paris 2014 Wrap-Up Day #2
And we are back to the Disneyland conference centre for the second day of Hack in Paris… It looks that the night was very short for many people (who hacked all night long?) because the planning started with a delay!
Hack in Paris 2014 Wrap-Up Day #1
Today started the 2014 edition of Hack in Paris, a French security conference held in Disneyland Resort Paris – a very nice place for such kind of event! The conference started with a sunny sky over the conference centre in the New York hotel. I arrived just in time to
HITB Amsterdam 2014 Wrap-up Day #2
And here is the second day wrap-up. The day started with a sunny sky over Amsterdam. After a breakfast and a chat with the Help Net Security team, we moved to the rooms. Like yesterday, the main stage is dedicated to women for two keynotes. The first one should be
HITB Amsterdam 2014 Wrap-up Day #1
I’m in Amsterdam for the next two days to attend the new edition of Hack In The Box. This is a special edition with many improvements. First, it’s the fifth edition (already!) and the location changed to “De Beurs van Berlageâ€, a very nice place in the center of the