A new law is in the pipe in Belgium. Like snail mail or mobile numbers, the Federal authorities would like to implement the portability of e-mail addresses and homepages when the user changes of Internet Service Provider (for a period of six months). The goal of this law is to
Incident Management: Don’t Forget Communication
I just read a new bad story about a company which lost cards information in the wild. All organizations must have a plan for incident management. Never forget the Murphy’s law: “If anything can go wrong, it will“. It is vital to include communication in your incident management plan. in
The Great Belgian Firewall is Back?
During the month of April, the Belgian authorities decided to prevent a very controversial web-site to be accessed by Belgian citizens (read my previous post). According to ZDNet.be, the idea of a firewall is back on the table. The article states that host or domain names could be blocked via
BruCON Podcast Available
The first episode of BruCON podcast is available! Official announce on the BruCON blog.
PGP Inside your Browser? Possible!
For years, I’m using Pine linked with GnuPG to sign and/or encrypt my e-mails (if you are interested in exchanging secure content with me, my PGP key is available here). I’m using SSH to connect to my server where I start Pine and manage my mailboxes. This is a secure
The Event Lifecycle
My second training week in London is done. This was a bootcamp organized by a well-known company active in log management solutions. Of course, the training focuses mainly on their own products but some reviewed principles are totally independent of any software or hardware solution and be can applied to
Stupid Compiler? Not sure!
A nice story reported by ISC today! A Linux kernel vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux kernel (and was present for a while IMHO!) The vulnerability origin was not the “human being the keyboard” but the compiler! GCC, the GNU C compiler has lot of optimization features (If you
Virtual Money with Real Risks?
The financial group ING announced a partnership with NetLog, the Belgian social network website. On a marketing point of view, this is a good action to attract young potential customers. ING (one of the top-3 bank in Belgium) will catch them on Netlog hoping that, later, they will switch to
Your Regex Coach
Regular expression (or regex) [Wikipedia] are a very powerful method to parse data and extract the information you need. But a regular expression can quickly turn into a nightmare due to its complexity. I often use a memo but testing the regexp live is the quickest way to debug them.
Looking for Wi-Fi?
This afternoon I was looking for a Wi-Fi hotspot!