Second day is over! And with the same fun as yesterday. After a (too short) night, some coffee was welcome just before the keynote presented by Mark Curphey from Microsoft. Mark revealed 10 crazy ideas that might change the information security industry with a little cost in money but a
Category: Security
Hack in the Box Day #1 Wrap Up
The first day of the HiTB security conference is already over! HiTB (“Hack in the Box“) organizes conferences for a while in Dubaï and Kuala Lumpur but this is the first time that an event is held in Europe and not too far from Belgium. I left home very early
Live Hall of Shame on French Television?
This frozen picture comes from a reportage broadcasted today by TF1, a major French television channel. On the white board behind the women, we can clearly read an URL and the associated credentials. This a excellent example of “don’t do this” to be used during security awareness trainings! Source: zataz.com
The Cloud is (Sometimes) Your Best Friend!
Everything has been said about the “cloud”, or more precisely, “cloud computing”. Like any new technology, there are pro and con, good and bad things. BTW, the cloud is not so new. For a while, lot of organizations already used a cloud infrastructure but it remained a “private cloud”. Since
Protect Yourself or Be Protected ?
A news coming from Australia became a hot topic in lot of security forums and mailing lists today. The Australian authorities brainstormed about new ways to fight the cyber crime. One of the submitted project is forcing people to install (and activate!) an anti-virus software to be able to access
iOS4 from a Security Point of View
The brand new firmware for the iPhone announced by Apple a few weeks ago is publicly available since yesterday. Called “iOS4” (special dedicace for cisco.com), it includes more than 100 new features like multitasking, folders, etc. I won’t review them here, there are multiple complete reviews already available online. Google
La “Nuit Du Hack” in Paris
Yesterday, I made a trip to Paris to attend the “Nuit du Hack 2010“. It was already the 7th edition. The event, organized between 16h and 7h, was split in two parts: a set of talks about security topics and, starting from midnight, a CTF contest. I had the chance
OWASP BE Meeting about SQL Injections’ OR 2=2;
Surprise! The OWASP Belgian Chapter sent a late notification to announce an extra chapter meeting with a special guest: Joe McCray from Learn Security Online. Today’ topic was “Advanced SQL injections“. Joe is a well known security specialist with high skills in penetration tests. He was in Belgium to provide
Welcome to Maltego v3!
It was discussed during the last edition of BlackHat Europe: Maltego v3 was almost ready to be released. Today is the D-day: The latest version is out! A quick reminder for those who still not know the product: “Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application. It will offer
Never Trust the Files Downloaded from the Internet
It became a daily action for most of us: We are looking for a piece of software which could improve our tasks. Google provides us thousands of links, we select the most attractive, download it and install it (there is no restriction in the users not the operating systems). That’s