I heard the following quote today in a online video about a commercial product and I found it so true: “HTTP became the new TCP!” TCP, or “Transmission Control Protocol“, runs at the transport layer (4th) of the OSI model. HTTP runs on an upper one, the application layer. Historically,
Category: Security
When Security is Threatened by Budget
For a few days, the Belgian ministers started to work hardly on the issue of the 2010 budget. Like everywhere, money is missing. They try to find (good) solutions to present a positive budget and, let’s dream, get some extra revenues. The classic ways to grab more money from the
Information about Microsoft Projects Leaked
What a coincidence! Yesterday I posted an article about protecting your brand in the web 2.0 jungle and today a nice story was reported on Slashdot. A very nice example of bad communication on the web 2.0. Robert Morgan, a Microsoft Research employee, wrote on his LinkedIn profile: “Working in
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…”
Strike Can Affect Security
In these times of crisis, many companies have launched plans to optimize their costs. Unfortunately, the management decisions often directly affect the people: staff reduction, higher pressure, increase of production rates, etc. If no agreement is reached between the management and unions, strikes may affect some services. To strike is
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.
Looking for Monitoring Tools? Check out monitoringforge.org
A new website opened yesterday: monitoringforge.org. The purpose is to centralize in one place a lot of open source monitoring tools, going from full monitoring suite to simple scripts ready to use in your daily job. I found this a very good initiative. Why? When we speak about “security”, we
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
Tracked down into the Stores
On Friday, I talked about the Freedom Not Fear event with an action day scheduled for yesterday. This initiative focuses on the retention problematic of the telecommunication data (Internet, mobile phones, …). But tracking does not only occur for digital data. Stores are another good example. Yesterday, I went with
What About Confidentiality of Data in Repair Centers?
Bad day today… My iPhone died! Yesterday it was 100% functional and today refused to boot or charge!? No reaction event after a hard-reset and a few hours of charging… This irritates me at the highest level. Well! No alternative, I went to my local dealer and explained the problem.