June 30th, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua ENISA has produced video clips which will sensitize your employees to information security risks and remind them of the basic golden rules. The ENISA video clips are available for download and use in any information security training programme, awareness activity and company website. It is becoming very important for any successful global business to ensure [...]
June 29th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Cyber criminals are using the new Harry Potter film to distribute malware, according to new research from security vendor PC Tools. The firm said that hackers are using the increasingly popular tactic of ‘black hat’ search engine optimisation (SEO) to infect users keen to download the film before it is screened. The criminals are pushing [...]
June 29th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) new super computer has taken 14th place in the global list of the top 500 supercomputers compiled by www.top500.org. The IBM Blue Gene/P System, named Shaheen, recorded a peak processing power of 185 Teraflops, ranking it among the top twenty high performance computing worldwide on its first [...]
June 25th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There is no question who the most famous hacker is. One of the first computer hackers prosecuted, Kevin Mitnick was labeled a “computer terrorist” after leading the FBI on a three-year manhunt for breaking into computer networks and stealing software at Sun, Novell, and Motorola. Known more for social engineering his way into networks than [...]
June 22nd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Robert Hansen, a guru in the field of security, has released a new tool for DoS-attacks, exposing serious Web server’s vulnerabilities including Apache and other servers. Hansen called his tool Slowloris , the most interesting in this utility that it can cause a DoS attack without using a huge amount of traffic as we usually [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking 
Tags: Apache, Attacks, Ethical Hacking, Linux, Security 
No Comments » June 19th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Ethical hacker Harold D’Costa breaks into a government website and intimates them immediately so they can secure the systems Guess how long it took ethical hacker Harold D’Costa to hack into the website of the Maharashtra Motor Vehicles Department? Just a minute. D’Costa, who is the director of Intelligent Quotient System, a city-based cyber security [...]
June 18th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Big number of fixes surprising, but no known malicious software for devices Apple Inc released 45 software patches on Wednesday to address rare security vulnerabilities in its popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices. The company released them as part of its widely anticipated iPhone 3.0 operating system. “This is a large cluster of patches [...]
Posted in Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: 45, flaws, iphone, ipod, Operating Systems, patches, Security, Update, Vulnerability 4 Comments »
