Back from an ISSA Belgian Chapter event about DNS & Security. As says Kris Buytaert on his blog: “Everything is a Freaking DNS problem!“. Today’s speaker was Marc Lampo who has a great DNS experience (a long time ago, he gained several years of experience as hostmaster while working for
Tag: Belgium
Belgian Transport Company Spotted at C&SAR 2009
C&SAR 2009 (“Computer & Electronics Security Applications Rendez-vous“) was organized in France a few days ago. The topic of the 2009 edition was “wireless security”, covered during three day by a large program of talks. One of the speakers was Gildas Avoine from the University of Louvain-La-Neuve. He spoke about
OWASP Benelux Day 2009
This afternoon, the OWASP Belgian Chapter organized its annual Benelux Day in Leuven. The event started round 12:30 with a great initiative: a workshop based on WebGoat. This is an OWASP project which maintains an insecure web application (based on Tomcat) used to teach web security. The proposed lessons cover
Will Belgium Build a new Botnet?
The title is a bit catchy but you will quickly understand why. Today started a new commercial offer promoted by the Belgian authorities: Start2surf@home. To help to reduce the technology gap between the Belgian citizens, a package is now available at a very attractive price: a laptop, a pack of
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
Complete Misunderstanding of Social Networks
It seems that a buzz is starting on Twitter in Belgium today! Koen Delvaux, a Belgian blogger, posted a story on his blog about his misadventure with a Belgium jeweler (no name here but Twitter is your best friend to find the name and location of the shop). To resume
When Security is Threatened by Budget
For a few days, the Belgian ministers started to work hardly on the issue of the 2010 budget. Like everywhere, money is missing. They try to find (good) solutions to present a positive budget and, let’s dream, get some extra revenues. The classic ways to grab more money from the
CERT.be Wants You!
Finally, Belgium will have an official CERT (“Computer Emergency Response Team“). This is a long story already covered a few times in my blog (in October 2008 and November 2008). But, finally one year later, our CERT is almost alive! It seems that the birth is difficult: Not yet officially
Firefox Banned in Walloon Administrations
Do you know the latest Belgian joke? As lot of Belgian citizens, I’m bullet-proof against Belgian jokes, they are part of our life. But this time, it affected me! According to the following article (in French, Google translation here), Firefox is temporary (?) banned from all the workstations used in
BruCON Talks Video Mirror
For those who did not attend the BruCON conference last week, the videos recorded during the talks have been released on the BruCON Wiki. Here is a local mirror: A new web attack vector script fragmentation by Stephan Chenette [Download] Attacking backbone technologies by Daniel Mende & Roger Klose [Download]