While not being at Blackhat USA, BsidesLasVegas or Defcon, I did put my own advice to practice on how to follow the conferences online. There is probably a lot more and a lot that I missed but here is a small selection of information that caught my eye. Enjoy.Articles:Armed with ... Read More

Note: this is a rehash of a previous blogpostWell, I'm one of the poor souls who couldn't make it to the Blackhat/Defcon / SecurityBsides fun. There are some ways to follow the events in Vegas (real time). ;-)The first tool is to use twitter and follow the hashtags #defcon, #blackhat ... Read More

If you don't know what wikileaks is, read this first. Wikileaks is under fire and need helps. And there are several ways to do that. I made a 25 euro donation and dedicated this blogpost to them to help. I'm asking you to do the same or help them in ... Read More

I didn't really expect my rant to make it to security.nl today. It's funny to see that the term is almost as religiously debated as the choice of favorite linux distro.I never said that we couldn't use the term hacker in more meaning then the original one, but we should ... Read More

I saw this Datanews article (Dutch) that a Senator has proposed a three strike law for copyright protection in Belgium. I hoped that this insanity would stay in the UK and France but it seems it has come to Belgium as well. Spying on citizens and disconnecting them from the ... Read More

Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely (wired.com). This story circulated a lot on different websites and on Twitter today and is the reason for this rant.Normally I have high regards for wired.com for the articles they write, including the series they did on hackerspaces. But with this article, they ... Read More

I saw some messages floating around on twitter that today was The Internation Day against Censorship. It's the first time I heard about this. So I'm helping a bit by mentioning Wikileaks again. Don't know what it is? Look at this short video from the BBC:-The Sunshine Press (WikiLeaks) is ... Read More

I was reading this datanews article about this hospital in Leuven wanting to place touchscreen terminals next to each bed.Medical personnel can consult the patient's medical dossier and other medical information. But these terminals can also be used by patients to surf and check their email. While a great service ... Read More

While the Aurora attacks were a good user awareness situation, it has become a lot of hype and three letter acronyms about something that has been happening for a longer period of time.A few whitepapers have appeared that give us some juicy details about the dropper and backdoor and domain ... Read More

If you haven't patched the latest Acrobat Reader from two weeks ago, it might be time to step up the pace. If you look at this blogpost from F-secure, you'll see that the PDF format has become the choice for targeted attacks. Within the security community, it's being nicknamed Penetration ... Read More