The eighth BruCON edition is already over! Don’t expect a wrap-up because I just don’t have time. I’m always keeping an eye on the attendees’ bits & bytes! Based on the first feedback that I received from attendees and speakers, it was another good edition but, from a network point
During the last edition of the Troopers security conference in March, I attended a talk about “JustMetaData”. It’s a tool developed by Chris Truncer to perform open source intelligence against IP addresses. Since then, I used this tool on a regular basis. Often when you’re using a tool, you have ideas to improve
In March 2011, Brian Honan contributed to an issue of the INSECURE magazine with an article called “Management are from Mars, information security professional are from Venus“. This title comes from the John Gray’s worldwide bestseller where he presents the relations between men and women. Still today, we can reuse this subject
The next edition of the hack.lu conference is coming soon! In approximatively one month, many infosec professionals will join Luxembourg to attend this event and I’ll also be there! I’m attending Hack.lu since 2008 and it remains one of my preferred event. What can we expect from the 2015 edition?
As a pentester, I’m always trying to find new gadgetstools to improve my toolbox. A few weeks ago, I received my copy of Dr Philip Polstra’s book: “Hacking and Penetration Testing with Low Power Devices” (ISBN: 978-0-12-800751-8). I had a very interesting chat with Phil during the last BruCON edition
Once again, here is my quick review about the BruCON network that we deployed for our beloved attendees! Yes, we are glad to take care of your packets during the conference. Nothing changed since the last edition, we deployed the same network in the same venue with the same controls
<Warning>Challenge completed</Warning> Warning! In a few weeks, hackers will be back in Disney Land Resort Paris for two events: Hack in Paris and La Nuit du Hack! I should be present to both events to do some live coverage and write wrap-up’s. The two agenda have been published (here & here). In
During the last BruCON edition, I grabbed some statistics about the network usage of our visitors. Every years, I generate stats like the operating systems types, the top-used protocols, the numbers of unique MAC addresses, etc. But this year, we also collected all traffic from the public network. By “public“,
BruCON 0x05 is already over! What an exciting week! After months of preparation, the event went very smoothly without big issues. Here is my quick wrap-up. This time, it’s not a wrap-up about the talks. I don’t have time to follow them, keeping an eye on the network all the
The contest is closed. All tickets have been assigned. Dear readers, I’ve some gifts for you! I’m very proud (and surprised!) to have been nominated to the European Security Bloggers Awards in two categories: “Best Personal Security Blog” and “Best Security EU Twitter“. To thank you for these nominiations (and first
