November 28th, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Security experts at Trend micro warned of a new attack targeting Skype users, this attack are a Botnet similar to Koobface that made a big panic on Facebook. According to the report the Botnet steals the users contact list, phone numbers, location,and other information on skype and it spread the malicious code over these contact [...]
November 28th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Mandriva has released new USB-drive Mandriva Flash 2010, this version of OS will be out in the market by the mid of December. The USB stick have 8GB of storage, 6 GB users can store documents and files while the OS will take 2GB. According to Mandriva the release can fit perfectly with people that [...]
November 28th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On Thursday at 9:32 London Stock Exchange (LSE) one of the largest stock exchanges in the world has experienced a failure for more than three hours. This failure has resulted a lost of more than 5 percentage points to 62.85 percent of FTSE 100 stocks. The problem gave investors a negative impression of the current [...]
November 23rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua For organizations that want to keep their computer network secure, the most basic thing they can do is to keep it patched. It’s not necessarily the most glamorous work out there for your overworked and overstretched IT people (which is why so many organizations are ignoring patching, at their peril). But your servers, network systems, [...]
November 21st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua One more time major botnets are using social networking websites to spread spam. Symantec’s MessageLabs warned lately that DonBot are started a new massive spamming message, the Lab detected from 18 November 4% of global Spam traffic. The spam message includes an offer to work from home with a 100-200 dollars daily salary and to [...]
Posted in News, Social Networking, Web Security 
Tags: Botnet, DonBot, MessageLabs, Security, Spam 
6 Comments » November 21st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On previous post we shared the way to prepare our system to DDoS attack and the way to mitigate the risk. Now it is important to react in the good moment and make an effective action during the attack. Monitoring routers connection can help victim to detect the beginning of the attack. First we should [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security, cybersecurity, Web Security Tags: DDOS, freeBSD, Security 11 Comments » November 18th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A new release has been recently announced by Metasploit Team, Metasploit framework helps to perform penetration testing and creating a new exploit for the available bugs. The Metasploit platform is used by professionals in the Network security, Network admin, developers and researchers to test the security level of any new system installed. This project was [...]
Posted in News, Pentesting, Software Security Tags: Metasploit, Network Penetration Testing 6 Comments »
