A quick wrap-up of my visit yesterday to the 7th edition of the RSSIL (“Rencontres Solutions Securité et Informatique Libre“) in Maubeuge (north of France). This is a very small event compared to major organizations like the BlackHat, HITB & co but it’s very well organized by a team of
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HITB Amsterdam Wrap-Up Day #2
I’m just back at $HOME. Let’s go for the second day wrap-up! This morning, I walked to the hotel in the sun to take a breakfast. Very nice weather over Amsterdam again today! Bruce Schneier was the second keynote speaker.
HITB Amsterdam Wrap-Up Day #1
I’m back in Amsterdam for the third time to attend the Hack in the Box security conference! Thanks to the organizers, I received again a press pass to cover the event. Thanks to them! So, here is my wrap-up of the first day. This year, I was also present as
Monitor your Monitoring Tools
We (and I’m fully part of it) deploy and use plenty of security monitoring tools daily. As our beloved data is often spread across complex infrastructures or simply across multiple physical locations, we have to collect interesting information and bring them in a central place for further analysis. That’s called
Hack in Paris and La Nuit du Hack (10th Edition)
The French hacking event is back! This year is a special one, it’s the tenth edition of “La Nuit du Hack” which follows the conference “Hack in Paris“. Yes, as the previous editions, there are three distinguished parts in this major event. Trainings are organized from June 18th to 20th
Integrating OSVDB into Ubuntu/Unity
Recently I upgraded my laptop with the latest Ubuntu release (12.04-LTS). For a few releases, Ubuntu switched from Gnome to Unity and I’m happy to use it since the 11.04 version! I know that this choice has caused a lot of debates between the aficionados of both GUI but it
London… a Nest of Infosec People
I’m back from a small trip to London where is happening some kind of a “security marathon” this week! In parallel to InfoSecurity Europe 2012, several “alternative” events where organized in the same area. However I did not visited InfoSecurity. I was present at the Benelux edition a few weeks
Some News About HiTB Amsterdam
Some news about the upcoming edition of the “Hack in The Box” security conference. This third edition (already!) will be held at a new venue: The hotel Okura in the center of Amsterdam. Apart of trainings, the conference itself will be organized during two days (May 24th – 25th) and
The value of HTTP 404 Errors
The HTTP protocol has a list of response status codes to help communication between the server and the browser. Everytime a server responds to a browser request, a status code is sent. The most common ones are: “200” which means “Everything is ok, here is some food!” and “404” which
Trainings? Because Infosec is an Ongoing Battle…
Working in information security is an ongoing battle! That’s why we have to learn new things every day! But the opposite is also true. As commented by somebody on Twitter recently: “Sometimes, it’s also good to forget things“. We also have to learn by our mistakes and the information security