Just a quick blog post to announce that I just committed a new version of my pastemon.pl tool on github.com. I’ll present it (and the associated website leakedin.com) this Thursday at HITB Amsterdam during a SIGINT session. What’s new with this version? First some bug fixes! (yes, I’m writing buggy
What Are You Sharing with Dropbox?
Dropbox is a well-known online service which allows you to share files between computers. If, in the past few months, new outsiders came on the same market, Dropbox remains the number one. If files are synchronized between Dropbox software clients, they also provide features to share files with third-party who
Monitor your Monitoring Tools
We (and I’m fully part of it) deploy and use plenty of security monitoring tools daily. As our beloved data is often spread across complex infrastructures or simply across multiple physical locations, we have to collect interesting information and bring them in a central place for further analysis. That’s called
Hack in Paris and La Nuit du Hack (10th Edition)
The French hacking event is back! This year is a special one, it’s the tenth edition of “La Nuit du Hack” which follows the conference “Hack in Paris“. Yes, as the previous editions, there are three distinguished parts in this major event. Trainings are organized from June 18th to 20th
Integrating OSVDB into Ubuntu/Unity
Recently I upgraded my laptop with the latest Ubuntu release (12.04-LTS). For a few releases, Ubuntu switched from Gnome to Unity and I’m happy to use it since the 11.04 version! I know that this choice has caused a lot of debates between the aficionados of both GUI but it
London… a Nest of Infosec People
I’m back from a small trip to London where is happening some kind of a “security marathon” this week! In parallel to InfoSecurity Europe 2012, several “alternative” events where organized in the same area. However I did not visited InfoSecurity. I was present at the Benelux edition a few weeks
Some News About HiTB Amsterdam
Some news about the upcoming edition of the “Hack in The Box” security conference. This third edition (already!) will be held at a new venue: The hotel Okura in the center of Amsterdam. Apart of trainings, the conference itself will be organized during two days (May 24th – 25th) and
The value of HTTP 404 Errors
The HTTP protocol has a list of response status codes to help communication between the server and the browser. Everytime a server responds to a browser request, a status code is sent. The most common ones are: “200” which means “Everything is ok, here is some food!” and “404” which
Trainings? Because Infosec is an Ongoing Battle…
Working in information security is an ongoing battle! That’s why we have to learn new things every day! But the opposite is also true. As commented by somebody on Twitter recently: “Sometimes, it’s also good to forget things“. We also have to learn by our mistakes and the information security
Are you Making the Most of your Security Tools?
After some wrap-ups, let’s come back with a more practical blog post. I like to keep a good balance between hands-on and wrap-ups or theoretical articles. Today, it’s almost impossible to implement a good security without buying some commercial tools. At least, you have a corporate firewall provided by a