EuroTrashSecurity goes live for the first episode! The story is quite simple: a bunch of European security professionals thought there was not enough information about the security landscape in Europe. There are already plenty of excellent security podcasts but all of them lack of stories happening on the old continent.
“Kill-A-Zombie Day” Today
It’s Halloween! A security company developing antivirus solutions launched a cool propaganda related to the Halloween topic (monsters, zombies, etc): The “Kill-A-Zombie” day! Every computer not properly protected has chances risks to become a “zombie” and be part of a botnet. Security awareness campaign are always good initiatives. What could
hack.lu Day #3
Already the last day of the conference! I could say that hack.lu was a “festival of calc.exe” this year! They popped up from everywhere 😉 We started with Ilja van Sprundel who talked about exploiting Delphi/Object Pascal. Applications written in Delphi are not often targets of attacks but interesting stuff
hack.lu Day #2
After some coffee and croissants, the second day started with a speech of the Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade, Jeannot Krecké. He spoke about the importance of security awareness on the Internet and IT infrastructure mentioning the Cyberworld Awareness Security Enhancement Structure (“CASES“) active in Luxembourg. Due to
hack.lu Day #1
Go to Luxembourg for the new edition of hack.lu. A three days conference about computer security and impacts on the society. This is the second edition for me. The first day started with workshops. I attended the one about DAVIX: “a live CD for data analysis and visualization that brings
Is Using “Public” Transport Means Having our Information “Public”?
Beginning of this year, there was a small buzz in the Belgian security landscape about a RFID card (The BMC – “Belgian Mobility Card“) being introduced by the company in charge of the public transports in Brussels (previous article here). A few months later, what changed? Almost nothing! If the
RSA Conference Europe Day 3
The third day and the conference are now over! I first followed the track about attacking and defending the virtual infrastructure. Dennis Moreau explained the weakest point of a virtual infrastructure then reviewed the different types of attacks. Some of then may affect the global performance of the system (ex:
Express Check Out: Gain Time or Gain Safety?
Today is the last RSA Conference day in London. This morning, when I opened my room door, I was surprised to find an envelope lying on the ground: It contained two pages: one with all the details of my bill and the second one was a form to fill: First
RSA Conference Europe Day 2
The second conference day started with a presentation of Jon Colombo about social engineering. Last year, he led a research in UK and unfortunately, as we might be feared, results were scary. Jon gave a complete definition of “social engineering” and explained why “information brokers” can so easily steal personal
Set Priorities!
I just read the following story: “US internet company Yahoo! has apologised to Taiwanese clients over a lap dance show organised during a brainstorming meeting for internet engineers in Taipei over the weekend.” (Full story here). This reflect how organizations can react in case of incident. The story above is