Yesterday, I went to Disneyland Paris! Not for a family trip but to attend a security conference. Great place isn’t it? Everybody knows the Disney park but the nearby hotels propose facilities to organize events. That’s what did Sysdream, the organizer of Hack in Paris 2011. I left home very
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June ’11 OWASP Belgium Meeting Wrap-up
Back from the latest OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting… Two speakers were scheduled tonight: Colin Watson presented the OWASP AppSensor project then Andreas Falkenberg talked about modern attacks against web services like Twitter. A last-minute guest joined us: Josh Corman who spoke about “rugged software“. What’s new at OWASP? First OWASP
May 2011 OWASP/ISSA Belgium Meeting Wrap-up
Tonight was held a joined OWASP and ISSA Belgium Chapters meeting with three speakers. Very interesting content, here is a small wrap-up in “bullet-point” mode due to a lack of free time… First speaker, Tom Van Der Mussele from Verizon Business spoke about the “non-conventional attacks“. Tom explained that those
HITB2011Ams Wrap-up Day #2
After a cool dinner with other Belgian infosec people, the second day started with a discussion panel about the “Economics of vulnerabilities“. The panelists were: Lucas Adamski (Mozilla), Steve Adegbite (Adobe), Aaron Portnoy (Tipping Point),Adrian Stone (Blackberry / RIM), Chris Evans (Google),Katie Moussouris (Microsoft), Dhillon Kannabhiran (HITB – moderator). Almost
HITB2011Ams Wrap-up Day #1
Welcome back in Amsterdam! This is the second edition of the Hack In The Box (HITB) security conference in Europe. Let’s go for a quick wrap-up! I woke up too early (04:00AM) to drive to Amsterdam and arrived without any traffic jams (rare in Amsterdam)! Enough time to perform the
#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
Hack.lu Day #3 Wrap-up
The third day is just over, I just arrived at home in Belgium. Let’s write a quick review! The day started with Tom Keetch who demonstrated how to escape the protected mode of IE8. The feature is available with Internet Explorer 7 and requires at least Vista. Unfortunately, nothing is
Hack.lu Day #2 Wrap-up
The second day is over! Here is my wrap-up. After some doses of caffeine, the day started with the “Red Team Testing” workshop by Chris Nickerson (@indi303). He explained a methodology to conduct penetration tests. Good examples are the ones of the Tiger Team. The goal is to revamp the
Hack.lu Day #1 Wrap-up
We are already in November, fall is back! This is also the sign of the new edition of hack.lu, a classic security conference organized in Luxembourg. The first day started with workshops. I attended the crypto analysis workshop prepared by Eric Filiol, an expert in this domain. Cryptography is certainly