Tonight was already organized the second OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting of this year. Two great (should I say “as usual”?) speakers were invited: Ken van Wyk and Jim Manico. Jim already talked during a chapter meeting last year and I was happy to see it back in our small country.
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First 2012 OWASP Belgium Chapter Meeting Wrap-Up
A new year started and why change good habits? I’m just back from the first OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting of 2012. Here is my quick wrap-up. The organization remains the same, the first few minutes were dedicated to some news from the OWASP organization given by Seba. A survey was
OWASP Benelux Days 2011 Wrap Up
The OWASP Benelux Days is a two-days event organized by three OWASP chapters (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg). The 2010 edition was organized in Eindhoven(NL). This year, it was organized in Luxembourg. After a safe trip, sharing my car with a friend, we arrived at the Luxembourg University. Nice venue with
June ’11 OWASP Belgium Meeting Wrap-up
Back from the latest OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting… Two speakers were scheduled tonight: Colin Watson presented the OWASP AppSensor project then Andreas Falkenberg talked about modern attacks against web services like Twitter. A last-minute guest joined us: Josh Corman who spoke about “rugged software“. What’s new at OWASP? First OWASP
May 2011 OWASP/ISSA Belgium Meeting Wrap-up
Tonight was held a joined OWASP and ISSA Belgium Chapters meeting with three speakers. Very interesting content, here is a small wrap-up in “bullet-point” mode due to a lack of free time… First speaker, Tom Van Der Mussele from Verizon Business spoke about the “non-conventional attacks“. Tom explained that those
OWASP BeNeLux Day 2010 Wrap Up
Yesterday, the three OWASP Benelux chapters organized together their annual OWASP BeNeLux day. This edition was held at the Fontys Hogeschool in Eindhoven (NL). First detail of this year, the weather conditions! After more than three hours of driving on snowy roads, I finally reached Eindhoven. Just in time for
OWASP BE Meeting about SQL Injections’ OR 2=2;
Surprise! The OWASP Belgian Chapter sent a late notification to announce an extra chapter meeting with a special guest: Joe McCray from Learn Security Online. Today’ topic was “Advanced SQL injections“. Joe is a well known security specialist with high skills in penetration tests. He was in Belgium to provide
OWASP Belgium Chapter Meeting Wrap Up
I’m back from the latest OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting. Belgium is a small country with lot of political issues (off-topic here 😉 ) but also a great electronic identify card or “eID“. Almost all Belgian citizens have an eID for a while (8.2 millions of cards have been delivered up
Message to Web Developers: OWASP Top10 2010 is Out!
If you are not aware of this news, OWASP released yesterday its annual Top-10 Web Application Vulnerability Risks. I won’t list them again here, lot of security bloggers already did it in the next hours following the official press release. Instead, I checked if the news was also relayed by
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