“I’m not a number, I’m a free man” said Number 6 in the serie called “The Prisoner” (for the oldest amongst us). The serie was broadcasted in the Sixties but we have to admit that, still today, we are only numbers! And this will be worse in the coming years.
HITB Amsterdam 2013 Day #2 Wrap-Up
And we are back for a second day full of fun and pwnage! It was a rainy day on Amsterdam today but water will not prevent hackers to meet again! I joined the hotel for the breakfast in time.
HITB Amsterdam 2013 Day #1 Wrap-Up
I back in Amsterdam for the third time this month. Today, it is to participate to the Hack In The Box conference. This is already the 4th one, time flies! Like the previous editions, the event is organised at the Okura hotel, a very nice place. Thanks to the Easter
Review: Penetration Testing – Setting Up a Test Lab How-To
I’m just back from an Easter break with $WIFE and $KIDS but it does not mean that I was completely disconnected. Between familly activities, I read some items pending in my todo list. One of them was the book called “Penetration Testing – Setting Up a Test Lab How-To” from
HITB Amsterdam 2013 Wishlist
The next edition of Hack In The Box gets closer! It will be held next week in Amsterdam. Thank to the organizers, I get a press pass and I’ll again be back for two days at the Okura hotel to cover the conference. I’ll tweet live (follow the official #HITB2013AMS hashtag) and
Are You Using “NAC” like “No Access Control”?
An interesting reflexion about a situation I faced while performing a pentest for a customer. The scope was the internal network or “show me what an attacker could access from a rogue device“. A very wide scope indeed… The customer is using a NAC (“Network Access Control“) solution to allow
Review: Wireshark Starter
Here is a quick review of a book about the well-known network sniffer: Wireshark. This book is part of new collection called “Instant” edited by Packt Publishing. This is an interesting idea for people who don’t have time/don’t want to read a classic 200-pages book or that need to go
BlackHat Europe 2013 Wrap-Up Day #2
And we are back with the second wrap-up of BlackHat Europe 2013! Â After a dinner with friends and some beers at Rapid7 and IOActive parties, I went back to the hotel to finish the first day wrap-up. I woke up, tool shower, grab some coffee and I’m ready for the
BlackHat Europe 2013 Wrap-Up Day #1
Hello Everyone, it’s BlackHat time again! Here is my wrap-up for the first day. Yesterday evening, after a safe drive to Amsterdam with @corelanc0d3r, we went out for dinner and had good times with other friends and guys from the Rapid7 team who maintain the Cuckoo project. The conference is
WordPress GET Requests Flood?
Let me share this story with you. I faced a strange incident last Saturday. My web server was flooded with thousands of GET HTTP requests generated by WordPress blogs. Those connections apparently seemed legit. The “attack“, let’s call it like this in a first time even if I don’t think