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How good is ChatGPT, the new conversational model of OpenAI?

Introduction

We are coaching students for the Cyber Security Challenge

News Press review CSC

We are currently organizing coaching sessions in preparation for the Cyber Security Challenge that will take place in March. Students from the Royal Military Academy and from Molengeek are participating. Check the publication on BelDefNews...

Use Loki to monitor the logs of your docker compose application

Docker Monitoring

Loki is a log database developed by Grafana Labs. It is similar to Elasticsearch, with some major conceptual differences:

2-factor authentication for Laravel using TOTP

Laravel

2-factor authentication is an important protection for a web application. In this blog post we see how Time based One Time Password (TOTP) authentication works, and how it can be implemented in a Laravel application...

Mitre Att&ck in Practice - Part II : Caldera

Tools Offensive Security Red Teaming

In the first part of Mitre Att&ck in Practice, the Att&ck Navigator and the Atomic Red Team were presented. The Navigator allows to interact with the Att&ck Matrix in a very flexible way. The Atomic Red Team (ART) is a collection of code snippets designed to actually carry out Techniques. The link between an Att&ck Technique and the ART is easily done via the Technique IDs.

Use a Raspberry Pi for (dynamic) routing

A Raspberry Pi is a fabulous computer card. It is possible to use it as a Retro Gaming emulator, a media centre, or a home automation box,... It is also widely used for educational purposes: learn programming, run a small webserver, use it as an access point. It is widely used in network laboratory purposes.

Mounting a host folder in WSL or VirtualBox Kali machine

Kali CSC

Most people using kali won't use it on a dedicated machine. For Windows users most would use kali from WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Other would use a virtual machine in VirtualBox or other virtualization environment. In this post we will only cover VirtualBox. In this case it can be useful to have a folder on the host machine that can be shared in the kali environment.

Conference on digital transformation, cybersecurity and resilience : Digilience 2022

News

This week we are presenting 3 papers at Digilience 2022, the conference on digital transformation, cybersecurity and resilience, in Plovdiv (Bulgaria):

Python or C or Python+C ?

Python C

We present a discussion on the use of the C and the Python languages and the use of Python calling a C library. Some arguments are general while others arise from the specific application of modifying a .csv (text) file.

Calling C from Python

Python C

Whatever the reason you would like to call C functions from Python, one approach is presented here and consists in creating a C dynamic library, compiled as a .so module and accessing the library thanks to the ctypes package of Python. Explanations are given step by step and stand for a Linux environment (tested with Ubuntu20.04).

Creating a dynamic library in C

C

C libraries are handy for distribution of programming work or for structuring a large development into units. In the specific case of Python programming, a C dynamic library can be a solution for a missing Python equivalent or if performance in execution time is a concern. We explain hereunder with an example the steps necessary to write a dynamic (shared) C library in Linux (tested on Ubuntu20.04). Another blog describes how to call a C dynamic library from Python ([https://cylab.be/blog/235/calling-c-from-python]).

How (and why) to use TeX Live

Teaching

LaTeX may be almost 40 years old now (first release dates from 1984), it is still a very active ecosystem. On CTAN, more than 100 packages are created or updated every month. To get the best results for your book or paper, you should keep your LaTeX packages updated. This is precisely the goal of TeX Live...