The 2009 edition (9th edition) of FOSDEM is already at our door! This event is scheduled on 7 and 8 February in Brussels (in the ULB campus). It’s now time to make my selection of sessions I’ll attend. The whole planning is available online. I plan to go on Sunday
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BruCON Episode #1
Tadaaaaaa! BruCON is alive! A security conference was really missing in Belgium. That’s fixed now. The first edition of BruCON will be held in Brussels, 18-19 September. I’ll be present for sure. Check out the website for details.
ISACA Belgian Chapter: Introduction to the SCOR Framework
Today, I attended the first ISACA Belgian Chapter meeting of 2009 about the SCOR framework. SCOR means “Supply Chain Operations Reference” (more information here). It’s a framework and best practices (not an audit methodology) to help enterprise to increase performance and reduce risks of their supply chain. Basically, there are
ISSA Belgian Chapter Event: New ISSA event: Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Back from Microsoft Belgium where occurred an ISSA Belgian Chapter event about security of Microsoft Windows Server 2008. The speaker, Ronny Bjones, started with some historical facts about the Microsoft products and security. He explained why Microsoft had lot of security issues in the past, due to the way developers
ISACA Belux Chapter Meeting – Emerging Threats for 2009
This evening, I attended an ISACA Belux Chapter meeting about the following topic: “One year after: what really happened and what didn’t. What do you expect next year?” (Read the announce). In December 2007, our local chapter performed an exercise: (try to) define the upcoming security threat for 2008 (meeting
ISSA/OWASP Belgian Chapter Meeting
Back from Brussels, where I attended a ISSA/OWASP local chapter meeting tonight. As usual, it was very interesting! Thanks to the organizers! There was two presentations on the planning. Didier Stevens explained why PDF files became so risky today! He started with a brief introduction about the PDF file format
hack.lu Part #10
Here we go! Last half-day which started with “Browser Rootkits” presented by Julien Lenoir and Christophe Devaux (both from Sogeti). As already said yesterday, browsers are now fully part of the users desktop and installed by default. They presented their rootkits developed for Internet Explorer and Firefox! First idea: “browser
hack.lu Part #9
Back from coffee break, let’s play with hardware now. Philippe Teuwen talked about smart cards and how they are protected. First attack is performed via the power line but recent smart cards are quite well protected. Flash attacks and electromagnetic attacks are other possibilities. Philippe’s slides were based on nice
hack.lu Part #8
Welcome back to the last day of hack.lu! First presentation was made by Philippe Langlois about the diversity of network perimeters available for companies today. Philippe was a founder of Qualis! Today everybody uses SS7 networks! Do you remember phreaking using blue boxes? SS7 was deployed by operators and prevented
hack.lu Part #6
Back from lunch, the conference continues with ligthing talks… First one, “NF3D and associates, firewalls get fun” from Eric Leblond, INL. NF3D is a vizualization tool for Netfilter logs. Logs (packets logged by Netfilter) are displayed in three-dimension like a GANTT diagram. Ulogd2 is a userspace logging daemon for Netfilter.