In these times of crisis, many companies have launched plans to optimize their costs. Unfortunately, the management decisions often directly affect the people: staff reduction, higher pressure, increase of production rates, etc. If no agreement is reached between the management and unions, strikes may affect some services. To strike is
Tag: Belgium
BruCON is Over…
Sunday… I slept a few hours… Strange feeling, BruCON is already over. But no regrets! It was amazing to participate to this security conference from inside. We can be proud of it: Belgium has now its own conf! Once again, thanks to the core team which organized such great event.
Belgium Would Like to Track Your Emails for Two Years?
Mr Stefaan De Clerck , the Belgian Justice Minister announced a new plan to fight (cyber-)criminals. Belgian ISP’s could be asked forced to keep a trace of all communications via e-mail for two years. Read the article on the RTBF website in French (or via Google Translate). The main reason
E-mail Portability for Belgian ISPs Soon?
A new law is in the pipe in Belgium. Like snail mail or mobile numbers, the Federal authorities would like to implement the portability of e-mail addresses and homepages when the user changes of Internet Service Provider (for a period of six months). The goal of this law is to
The Great Belgian Firewall is Back?
During the month of April, the Belgian authorities decided to prevent a very controversial web-site to be accessed by Belgian citizens (read my previous post). According to ZDNet.be, the idea of a firewall is back on the table. The article states that host or domain names could be blocked via
Virtual Money with Real Risks?
The financial group ING announced a partnership with NetLog, the Belgian social network website. On a marketing point of view, this is a good action to attract young potential customers. ING (one of the top-3 bank in Belgium) will catch them on Netlog hoping that, later, they will switch to
CERT-in-a-Box
Computer Emergency Response Teams (or “CERTs”) are organizations that handle security incidents related to computers and networks. A CERT can be deployed to support private networks (example: in a multi-national company or an organization like NATO which operates its NCIRC) or organized by federal authorities in regions or countries. CERTs
0wn3d by A Google Car!
I was driving into Brussels this afternoon and saw two Google cars. The second one stopped just in front of me at a traffic light. The cameras were recording (I saw some activity on the LEDs on top of the cams). I wrote down the place and time. Let’s see
BruCON Volunteers Meeting
Back from the latest BruCON volunteers meeting! Meetings will be held every two weeks until the event. There is so much things to do but it’s so exciting. It promises to be a great event! Don’t forget to register (still six days of early birds ticket price) We are also
The Great Firewall of Belgium
Due to an official request from the federal authorities, Belgian Internet Service Providers are preventing their customers to access four very-controversial URLs (all of them pointing to the same website). When I say “controversial”, it means, regarding the Belgian law, “illegal”. This website publishes personal information about people who performed