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Review: Instant OSSEC Host-Based Intrusion Detection System 25 Aug 2013 | 01:22 pm
The guys from Packt Publishing asked me to review a new book from their “Instant” collection: “OSSEC Host-Based Intrusion Detection“. This collection proposes books with less than 100 pages about mult...
Bypassing Premium LinkedIn Restriction with Google 23 Aug 2013 | 02:34 pm
Social networks are wonderful sources of information when you need to collect data about a potential target. That’s the way humans work, just like you and me: we like to share, we like to show what we...
DNS Amplification Attack: Is Belgium Safe? 29 Jul 2013 | 12:38 pm
For a while, DDoS are back on stage and one of the classic techniques still used today is the DNS Amplification attack. I won’t explain again the ins and outs, there are plenty of websites available w...
No Customers Were Harmed In This Attack… 18 Jul 2013 | 02:25 pm
I don’t know if you already noticed but it looks to be a never-ending story: Companies got pwned and data leaked on the Internet pastebin.com. Then starts the game of press releases… Most companies t...
Post-Analysis of My WordPress Bruteforce Attack 11 Jul 2013 | 10:50 pm
A few days weeks ago, I wrote a blog post (link) about a (unsuccessful) WordPress bruteforce attack agains this site. I captured the attackers’ traffic in a big pcap file. It was a good opportunity to...
The Belgian SIEM… wounds my heart with a monotonous languor! 8 Jul 2013 | 05:57 pm
Lot of Belgian newspapers and sites reported today (Example of article - in French) that a project of law will be discussed soon (deriving from the EU Data Retention Directive) to request providers o...
CIPS: EU Sponsorship to Protect Against Terrorism & Security Risks 4 Jul 2013 | 01:47 am
Today I read an interesting document which landed into my mailbox. It’s about a call for proposals initiated by the European Commission “Home Affairs” DG. The document was a CFP (“Call For Participati...
Playing The “Pass The Bomb” Game? 2 Jul 2013 | 01:54 am
Do you remember the “Pass The Bomb” game? All kids played this game at least once. The principle is simple and funny. There is bomb which is programmed to explode after a random time. Players must pas...
“Out of the Box” SIEM? Never… 26 Jun 2013 | 11:41 pm
A reflexion about the multiple SIEM (“Security Information and Event Management“) products available on the market… I’m currently working with a customer on a big SIEM implementation in an environment...
La Nuit du Hack 2013 Wrap-Up 23 Jun 2013 | 10:50 am
My clock tower is completed! I left home yesterday at 6AM to Disneyland Ressort Paris and I’m just back at 6AM. It’s too late to go to bed so I finished to write my Nuit du Hack wrap-up. This was the ...
