The SIEM planet has recently gone crazy. Following the acquisition of the leader, Arcsight, by HP last year, IBM just acquired Q1 Labs… and Mc Afee, Nitrosecurity ! With RSA and Norton having their own solutions, we know have 5 big players in the arena (see Gartner 2011). This is a good proof that the [...]
Found on Full Disclosure, a weired but troubling connection of two security affairs : the OpenBSD backdoor rumor and the stuxnet worm.
Well, following a suggestion from my wife, I decided to bring up a mascotte for this website. I admit that it was a lot of fun playing with Gimp and Inkscape, which are really great tools. So please welcome our new little spiky friend : I hope that you have nothing against hedgehogs, which should [...]
After I tried to set this blog as my own OpenID provider using the OpenID WordPress plugin, I got a weired error message: “This is an OpenID Server, Nothing to See Here… Move Along” I could not find what as wrong, as all prerequisites were fulfilled, until I find this nice post. The patch there [...]
You may have noticed that the site had a lot of downtimes recently. I was having a daily kernel panic and weired file system corruptions, which I first tought were coming from the successive crashes and reboots. However, while it happened again and again and I could not find any good reason for that, I [...]
No, it is not a computer this time. And yes, it is off topic, but I wanted to thank a Japanese friend for his gift and, at the same time, promote his work : He owns a small company in Hokkaido producing a number of wood toys. He is an artist and designs them, which [...]
I chose to donate the last Google Adsense income of the blog to Unicef. If you can donate, please make a tour there :
For those who still don’t know, Ryan Farmer would be a spammer and a liar. Quite embarassing to be caught like that. Maybe all this is a lot of noise, but such people deserve a good lesson of living in society. Really.
