July 31st, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua The European Internet operators Community announced the launch of OpenDNSSEC project which aims to manage the safety of DNS on internet. Lately there was a big doubt regarding the DNS safety on the net, all community members decided that the data in DNS caches has become so vulnerable to attack that it cannot be relied [...]
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Tags: Dan Kaminsky, DNS Poisoning, DNSSEC, John A Dickinson, Kirei AB, NLnet Labs, Nominet, OpenDNSSEC, SURFnet 
1 Comment » July 30th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Internet Systems Consortium and US-CERT warned of a new vulnerability that concerns DNS-server code, Berkeley Internet Name Domain 9 (BIND9), this vulnerability can lead to system failure in the popular DNS BIND9. Richard Hyatt from Bluecat Networks Inc. alerted of the new zero day vulnerability and encourages all costumers to patch there servers as soon [...]
Posted in Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: DNS vulnerability, DoS, Internet Systems Consortium, US-CERT, Zero-day 1 Comment » July 29th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There are an immense number of tools for Brute force and password recovery that have been created to help security specialist in pentesting and evaluate application and system password level security. Let’s start with Brutus AET2, from 2000 there were no update for this tool. But this tool appears as one of the fastest and [...]
Posted in Password Security, Tools Tags: brute force, Brutus AET2, L0phtcrack, Password recovery, THC-Hydra, TSGrinder 2 Comments » July 28th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sysinternal announced some major updates for their tools package. The most interesting in these updates is the end life of Filemon and Regmon and adding a number of enhancements for Procmon, including new by-extension and by-directory views in the File Summary dialog, a new Network Summary view, quick filtering in all the summary views, additional [...]
July 26th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Many people prefer the Linux system than Microsoft due to the operating system performance. Memory is a very important issue for any operating system and controlling the performance of your pc is a must, users always have a big desire to optimize the PC performance and boosting memory to run applications or play some games [...]
Posted in Operating System Tags: Boosting your OS, Operating System, System performance, Windows Vista 9 Comments » July 23rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua This is a really nice report that sky news have made about the computer repairing shops, well if you are going to fix your computer at a third party shop, take off your hard disk and try as much as possible to properly encrypt any sensitive information on it. It’s very important to provide awareness [...]
Posted in News Tags: computer privacy, Data security, Forensics, pc repairs, sky news, Snooping 6 Comments » July 20th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Working with command line interface makes many users feel uncomfortable with this tool but Scapy brings us a benefit of many popular tools like : hping , nmap, arpspoof ,arp-sk ,arping,tcpdump ,tetheral ,p0f and so on.. Scapy works perfectly with packets and give pentester the ability to test some advanced attacks like VLAN hopping, ARP [...]
Posted in Pentesting Tags: Access Point Spoofing, ARP cache poisonning, ARP-Spoofing, DHCP exhaustion, DHCP server, DHCP spoofing, DNS Attack, DNS spoofing, DoSing, Dynamic DNS updates, FUZZING, network discovery, OS fingerprinting, Pentesting, scanning, Scapy, traceroutes, VLAN hopping, Wi-Fi signal strength measuring 10 Comments »
