Today, the second edition of “Security Friday” was held in Brussels. As mentioned on the website, the goal is “a gathering of people in the IT security field. Getting together for a drink on the last Friday of the month in a bar near you we talk amongst peers about
Category: Security
DNS Hijacking With Just One Mail
This is not new but it still happens in 2014… Hijacking a website with just a small e-mail. Here are the facts. For a while, I’m hosting a friend’s website. His website is quite old and it already moved from servers to servers depending on my deployed infrastructure. A few
Building IP Reputation Lists from Snort Rules
We are already in 2014 for a few days and this is my first blog post for this year! So, let me wish you a wonderful 2014 for you and you family! Let’s start with a quick post about building IP addresses reputation list. This topic was discussed on a
Review: Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize and Recover Your Devices
I received a copy of a new book published by Packt publishing about mobile security. As mobile devices are more and more targeted by attackers, it was a good idea to publish a book on this hot topic. Written by a group of people working for IBM, the book covers
OWASP Belgium Chapter Meeting Wrap-Up: Using Browsers Otherwise!
We are already very close to the EOY and we are all expecting the Christmas break in a few days. Tonight, the last OWASP Belgium chapter meeting for 2013 was organised with the help of another local chapter which was created in 2013: the ISC2 one. Thanks to the F5
Twitter Used As Security Awareness Media: “FiveWordSecurityHorrors”
Yesterday a new trend started on Twitter with the hashtag “FiveWordTechHorrorsâ€. I don’t know exactly who started it and why but it became quickly relayed and populated by many people working in IT. Everybody started to report some horror stories of ideas in all IT domains (security, development, hardware, software,
Why the Belgian Cyber Security Guide Must Be Extended? Example with MySQL!
A few days ago, I attended an event organized by the Chamber of Commerce in Belgium (ICC Belgium) and the Federation of Enterprises (FEB) to announce with great ceremony the release of the first Belgian Cyber Security Guide. Honestly, this is a great initiative! In the audience, many many infosec professionals were
BotConf 2013 Wrap-Up Day #2
I’m back in Belgium after driving a few hours back to Belgium and it’s time to give you my wrap-up of the second day. After a short night, we were back at the Chamber of Commerce in Nantes. The venue was located closed to the “Maillé-Brézé“, an old French military
BotConf 2013 Wrap-Up Day #1
I’m in Nantes (France) for two days to attend a new conference: Botconf. As the name says, this event is dedicated to botnets and malwares. The goal is to present talks about those malicious network of computers, how to detect them, how to fight them and, finally, eradicate them. I
OWASP Benelux Day 2013 Wrap-Up
I’m just back from Amsterdam where was organized the 5th edition of the OWASP Benelux Day. This was already my third visit to this event and I finished my Benelux Tour: Luxembourg in 2011, Belgium in 2012 and the Netherlands this year. The location was very nice, the Amsterdam RAI