March 31st, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researchers at The Honeynet Project has discovered a vulnerability in the Conficker that makes it easy to detect,The Conficker adds changes in Windows that can be detected remotely by using a various scanning methods which is already integrated into different popular scanning tools. Members of the Honeynet Project founded that conficker infected host’s respond with [...]
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Tags: Botnet, Conficker, Honeynet Project, Malware, Network, network scanner, nmap, patch, scan, Security, Worm 
No Comments » March 26th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researchers at SRI International updated their Conficker paper. They have provided a very useful analysis of the Conficker malware. The last variant of Conficker, referred to as Conficker C leaves as little as 15% of the original B code base untouched the main purpose of the Conficker is to provide the authors with a secure [...]
Posted in News Tags: Botnet, Computer Safety, Conficker, Malware, Security, Viruses, Worm No Comments » March 25th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researchers at Core Security Technologies demonstrated how to creat a new rootkit which is even after formatting the hard disk impossible to remove, this malicious code is injected into the low level system of the target machine (BIOS firmware). They have implemented this malicious code into two computers one machine is running Free BSD and [...]
Posted in News Tags: BIOS patching, BIOS ROOTKIT, code injecting, Core Security Technologies, Malware, Rootkit No Comments » March 21st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Two well-known Mac hackers are updating a widely used hacking toolkit, making it easier to take control of a Macintosh computer. Over the past few days, the researchers have been quietly adding new software to the Metasploit toolkit, used by security researchers and criminals alike. Metasploit already supported Mac attacks, but until recently the Mac [...]
March 15th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Software used to control thousands of home computers has been acquired online by the BBC as part of an investigation into global cyber crime. The technology programme Click has demonstrated just how at risk PCs are of being taken over by hackers. Almost 22,000 computers made up Click’s network of hijacked machines, which has now [...]
March 11th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Damn Vulnerable Linux is another interesting platform for pen testing and vulnerability assessment, it is created for training purposes to IT-Security professional during a university lessons by the IITAC (International Institute for Training, Assessment, and Certification) and secure software Engineering in cooperation with the French Reverse Engineering Team. It is freely available for download here: [...]
Posted in Pentesting Tags: Ethical Hacking, Linux, Live CD, Pentest, Security, Vulnerabilities Assessment No Comments » March 5th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A very interesting article that Andy Dalrymple, managing consultant information risk management at Global Secure Systems (GSS) posted, this article provides a twelve golden rules to safely shopping online. you can find the Tips Here.
