I’m back from the last OWASP (organized together with ISSA) Belgium Chapter meeting. As usual, good times with friends from the Belgium Security landscape ;-). Two topics were covered today. First GreenSQL, a database firewall, then an overview of the mobile malwares by Mikko Hypponen. Almost one year to the
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Data Protection Day 2010
The 2010 edition of the Data Privacy Day will be held on the January, 28th. This initiative has a dedicated website: dataprivacyday2010.org. The goal is to create more awareness about your online privacy: “Data Privacy Day is an international celebration of the dignity of the individual expressed through personal information.
ISSA Belgium Chapter Meeting: Introduction to OSSEC
Back from the first ISSA Belgium Chapter Meeting of 2010. Today’s topic was “Introduction to OSSEC : Log Analysis and Host Intrusion Detection“. A very interesting topic for me. First because I’m involved in lot of SIEM projects. But especially because Wim Remes, the speaker, is a friend of mine.
ISSA Belgian Chapter Meeting: DNS & Security
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
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
“Kill-A-Zombie Day” Today
It’s Halloween! A security company developing antivirus solutions launched a cool propaganda related to the Halloween topic (monsters, zombies, etc): The “Kill-A-Zombie” day! Every computer not properly protected has chances risks to become a “zombie” and be part of a botnet. Security awareness campaign are always good initiatives. What could
hack.lu Day #3
Already the last day of the conference! I could say that hack.lu was a “festival of calc.exe” this year! They popped up from everywhere 😉 We started with Ilja van Sprundel who talked about exploiting Delphi/Object Pascal. Applications written in Delphi are not often targets of attacks but interesting stuff
hack.lu Day #2
After some coffee and croissants, the second day started with a speech of the Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade, Jeannot Krecké. He spoke about the importance of security awareness on the Internet and IT infrastructure mentioning the Cyberworld Awareness Security Enhancement Structure (“CASES“) active in Luxembourg. Due to
hack.lu Day #1
Go to Luxembourg for the new edition of hack.lu. A three days conference about computer security and impacts on the society. This is the second edition for me. The first day started with workshops. I attended the one about DAVIX: “a live CD for data analysis and visualization that brings