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
Freeeeeeeeedom!
I just found an interesting event scheduled on next Saturday: Freedom Not Fear 2009. The origin of this initiative came from Germany where authorities are known to have a strong position on data retention and Internet/mobile phone users tracking. The goal of this event is to protest against the growing
Hello? Anybody Home?
If you’re working in the small world of Internet Providers or perform any other business related to Internet, you are for sure aware of the major outage affecting Colt since yesterday in Europe (or you’re living on the moon!) Checkout the article on theregister.co.uk. I received feedback from several customers
FrHACK_01 Day Two
Just back to home from Besancon. Here we go for the second day review! Due to last minute planning changes, the conference started later today. Not critical, it was a good opportunity to do some social networking and BruCON promotion.
FrHACK_01 Day One
After driving most of the night, I arrived in Besancon just in time for the registration at FrHACK_01. Next step was to look for a breakfast and 0xC0FFEE. Nothing to do with the conference but Besancon looks to be a nice small city. My first mission was to let some
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.
Gmail Outage Tonight
Unusual but tonight, Gmail was unavailable as reported by the Google Apps Status Dashboard. Besides the fact that more and more people rely on the number-one webmail interface to handle their e-mails, this problem has impacted other Internet social services like Twitter! When the problem was detected by users, they
Updated: IIS-FTP Nmap Script
Yesterday, I posted an article about a Nmap script to detect potentially vulnerable Microsoft IIS FTP servers. I updated the script which now allows an alternative FTP user and password pair to be passed via the command line (thanks to Chris for the comment). If no arguments are provided, an
Back to …
After some good summer times, back to school for my daughters today (a very special day, a bigger school) and to work for me tomorrow… I was off for two weeks and spent one of them on the Ré island in France. Very bad Wi-Fi coverage, more and more access
Detecting Vulnerable IIS-FTP Hosts Using Nmap
A new 0-day exploit for the FTP server included within the Microsoft IIS suite has been released today. Check the post on the Full Disclosure mailing list for more details. Based on an existing Nmap script, I quickly wrote a new one which performs the following actions: Check if anonymous