Second day is over! And with the same fun as yesterday. After a (too short) night, some coffee was welcome just before the keynote presented by Mark Curphey from Microsoft. Mark revealed 10 crazy ideas that might change the information security industry with a little cost in money but a
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Hack in the Box Day #1 Wrap Up
The first day of the HiTB security conference is already over! HiTB (“Hack in the Box“) organizes conferences for a while in Dubaï and Kuala Lumpur but this is the first time that an event is held in Europe and not too far from Belgium. I left home very early
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
Attending Security Conferences from a Social Point of View
BlackHat Europe 2010 is already over! I spend good times (who don’t!) and the huge number of canceled flights (due to the ash cloud coming from Island) did not changed my point of view. I successfully escaped from Barcelona with @corelanc0d3r and we were back in Belgium after a mix
BlackHat Briefings Day #2
Second briefings day always in Barcelona. For the first talks of the day, I decided in last minute to change my wishlist. I attended the presentation of Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo called “Practical crypto attacks against web applications“. Their started from a common error in security: “encryption is not
BlackHat Briefings Day #1
After two days of intensive training with SensePost (“Hacking by Numbers”), the briefings started today. Jeff Moss opened the keynote session with fresh information about the conference. First, the number of registrations increased (+100) compared to the last year. This is a good news! The crisis did not affect the
My BlackHat Wishlist
Like I wrote yesterday, the next Black Hat conference will start in less than 2 days now. The two first days will be dedicated to trainings. The briefings (or talks) are scheduled during the two remaining days. The schedule has been published and it’s now time to make some (difficult)
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