In order to fight against computer threats, itrust consulting has created the first private “Computer Emergency Response Team” (CERT) in Luxembourg, which consists of a team of technical specialists able to intervene in case of cyber-attacks and to find the appropriate solutions. Mr. Carlo HARPES, director of itrust consulting is also involved in the international technical committee of standardization ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 dedicated to ICT security techniques. Another interesting article is this one

itrust participates in the 1st SPARC Workshop in Pisa. Links: Outcome of the work on project SPARC

itrust participates in the bugcon 2013 (archive) in Mexico and provides a workshop and a presentation about malware analysis.

In a press release of the 16.01.2013, the Luxembourgish Government states that a minor IT incident occured and one of its machines has been attacked by “Red October”. Immediately after appearance of “Red October”, Paul Rascagnères and Hugo Caron, two Pentesters at itrust consulting, contributed to the analysis of the malware’s procedual method. Their articles can be found on malware.lu: part 1, part 2, part 3 and Home made Red October C&C.

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