The European Commission is capable of the worst as best ideas! A few days ago, they announced the imminent setup of a CERT (“Computer Emergency Response Team”) to protect the institutions, agencies and bodies against cyber-attacks. Good idea! But, a few days ago, a press-release announced that Justice Ministers, who
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Abuse Info Gathering Made Easy
If there is a boring task when you are investigating a security incident, it’s the process of gathering all information related to the involved IP addresses: What are the IP addresses used, routing information (AS), geo-localisation and abuse information gathering. Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote a cool piece of Perl code to
Belnet Security Conference Wrap up
I’m back from the second edition of the Belnet Security Conference organized today in Brussels. Belnet is the “Belgian National Research Network“. In other words, this is the federal organization which connects universities, governments infrastructures, schools to the Internet using high-speed pipes. Since the beginning of 2010, they also extended
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