Just after BlackHat Europe, InfoSecurity Belgium was organized in Brussels this week. Something completely different: other atmosphere, other people, business oriented. It is the place to be for Belgian people working in information security. To make a rough comparison, suits and ties are at InfoSecurity what t-shirts are at BlackHat.
Are You “NG” Ready?
“Next Generation” or “NG“… Two magic letters used by more and more v€ndor$ to promote new versions of their products… Next Generation firewalls, Next Generation SIEM, Next Generation IDS. They are many examples. Google reports 34M of hits while searching for “next generation security“! In my humble opinion, “next generation”
#BlackHatEU Day-2 Wrap-up
BlackHat Europe 2011 is already over! I’m waiting for my flight at Barcelona airport with Peter from Corelan Team, writing my wrap-up for the second day! It started with a talk by Sebastian Muniz & Alfredo Ortega: “Fuzzing and Debugging Cisco IOS“. Cisco IOS images are huge binary compressed files
#BlackHatEU Day-1 Wrap-up
The first day started (too) early with Rafal Los’s (@Wh1t3Rabbit) briefing about “Defying Logic – Theory, Design, and Implementation of Complex Systems for Testing Application Logic“. Rafal explained some techniques not “brand new” but which are really interesting. The goal of application logic testing is to discover what an application
BlackHat Europe 2011
BlackHat stopped in Barcelona for the 2011 European edition. Second time at the same place, the “Palau de Congressos de Catalunya“. Same format as the previous editions: two days of trainings and two days of briefings. Strange, lot of trainings were canceled! Is it due to the crisis and less
BSidesLondon is on its Way!
The first edition of BSides London is moving forward at good speed. The crew of volunteers worked hard and announced today the schedule. During the call for papers, 54 submissions were submitted then registered visitors were invited to vote for their preferred subjects. Fifty-four submissions for the first edition of
You Like? Spammers Like You Too!
Our best worst friend Facebook is full of resources. Not only for attackers but also spammers. The “I like” button became very popular on many personal (blogs) and professional websites. Basically, the purpose is simple and efficient: If you are logged on Facebook and visit a website which proposes an
Tomahawk, your IDS/Firewall Best Friend
“Tomahawk” is the name of a popular cruise missile developed by General Dynamics in the seventies. But it is also the name of a free tool which helps to stress test security devices like firewalls or IDS. It has been written by Brian Smith from TippingPoint. This is well-known manufacturer
Your Firewall is Stupid!
The title of this post may sound extreme but it describes exactly the story below. Never forget that firewalls (like any other security device or application) is just a tool that must be used in the right way. If you use a drill with the wrong bit, you will miss
Developers, IPv6 is also a Challenge for You!
I hate situations like the one I faced this afternoon… I’ve a daemon, written in Perl, running on a Linux box for months now. When I say for months, it means: Without restarting the process or the host except regular upgrades. But, for maintenance reasons, I had to reboot the