I received my Yubikey a few days ago! Very good service from Yubico. Living in Belgium, the key was sent from Sweden (three business days to be delivered, tracking number, safely packed, etc). For those who never heard the word “Yubikey”, a small introduction. The Yubikey is a very simple
Map of Surveillance Societies Around the World
This is not recent map (2007) but interesting… Notice the colors of the United States and France! The map is here: http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-559597
Safe Syslog Data Storage
Logs are important in your security policy. Each devices in your infrastructure generate events and write them to log files. Log files are stored locally and can be reviewed via the tool provided by the device manufacturer. However, it quickly becomes a pain to manage if you’ve hundreds or thousands
Free Caribbean Cruise? Really?
I’m excited! I received my first phishing call today 😉 I received a call from a hidden number, picked up the phone and heard a message in English saying something like: “Congratulations! You just have won a free Caribbean cruise! To reclaim your prize, press 9. That’s the nine-key on
We Have Spare Time in IT?
Source: eviljaymz.com/
Google Toolbar Breaks Juniper Network Connect on Linux?
I was fighting with my corporate SSL VPN setup (based on Juniper) for a while and finally found the cause of the problem: the Google toolbar! Juniper proposes a “network connect” mode: “Network Connect is a software package from Juniper Networks that interfaces with its Secure Access hardware and provides
Garry McGraw @ OSWAP Belgian Chapter Meeting
Back from the second OWASP Belgian Chapter meeting! This event had only one speaker but which one: Gary McGraw himself. What a wonderful speaker! He knows his topics and is able to keep the audience aware with a typical sense of humor. I liked! Gary is the author of several
Crypto KMS vs KPMI
Sun Microsystems (via the opensolaris.org project) released its encryption key management technology as open source. The offered toolkit allows developers and manufacturers of storage devices to write applications which will work together with the Sun Microsystems Crypto KMS (KMS stands for “Key Management System“). The Crypto KMS is an appliance
Monitoring Solutions Matrix
The choice of a monitoring solution is not easy! Free or commercial, required features, agentless or agent based, security aspects, etc… There are so many requirements that it’s difficult to find the best solution. I found a page on Wikipedia with a comparison of well-know monitoring solutions. It’s not complete,
Unsafe Customer Data!
I received the following e-mail yesterday. It came from a Belgian e-commerce website. It’s a company active in a very specific out-door activity (no name here, but if they are other customers reading my blog, they will for sure recognize the format). The customer base is restricted (but international). Sorry