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
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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)
Help Your Laptop to Survive a Security Conference
BlackHat Europe is at our doors! I’ll flight to Barcelona on Sunday evening. Just enough time (amongst other things) to prepare my laptop against the “Jungle”. Today, you can’t attend a security conference without a laptop and some Internet connectivity. To take notes, to visit websites reported during talks, to
Belgium will have its Own Cybercrime Competence Center?
As I wrote in a previous blog post, I went to the FIC2010 conference last week. One of the talks I attended was about the “2centre” initiative. 2centre (“2c” for “cc”) means “Cybercrime Centers of Excellence Network for Training, research and Education“. Those centers of excellence focus on law enforcement.
My First Visit @ FIC2010
I’m back from Lille (France) where was organized the 4th edition of “FIC” – “Forum International sur la Cybercriminalité” – during two days. This was my first edition and I was pleasantly surprised: I was a bit afraid to attend an event organized in France for French speaking people about
InfoSecurity, (ISC)2, ISACA, My Security Marathon
This week is a real security marathon. I was in London yesterday but came back to Belgium too late to attend the ISSA Belgian Chapter meeting. The invited speaker was a great one: Chris Hoff. According to friends, it was great! Today was also the first day of the InfoSecurity.be
BruCON 2010 CFP Announced!
After a great first edition in 2009, BruCON will be back in 2010! Two days of trainings and two days of talks. The Call for Papers (CFP) has been announced and will remain open until 30th of April 2010. Submit directly your propositions via the dedicated tool, here.
FOSDEM Turns Ten!
I’m back from my daily visit to the FOSDEM. This two-days event organized in Brussels hit the 10th edition! Congratulations! I attended FOSDEM for several years and the success is continuously growing. This is good! It means that the interest in free software is growing too! Even better, like any