December 18th, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today Morning Twitter website was out of service for two hours and the reason of this service disruption is a DNS-attack. Many users thought that the website was compromised by hackers from “Iranian cyber army” by exploiting WordPress vulnerabilities but that was not the case, the attack was made on the DNS server by redirecting [...]
December 12th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Cybercriminals have made this week unforgettable for Amazon team this is after that security researchers have reported existing of Zeus Botnet at The cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) control center. The incident has been detected after a Password-stealing Zeus banking Trojan had infected client computers where hackers were able to compromise a site on EC2 [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security, Cybercrime & Hacking, News 
Tags: Amazon EC2, Malware, Zeus bot 
8 Comments » December 11th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Hewlett-Packard Company has released several patches for a bunch of vulnerability on OpenView Software products. HP advises administrators to install the patches immediately to mitigate the risk. OpenView Network Node Manager (OV NNM) is affected by 12 critical bugs that attackers could use to execute remote arbitrary code and gain control over the system. The [...]
December 6th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There appears to be some activity in the world of DDoS Defense. DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks have taken many forms over the years. From the early Ping Floods and Smurf attacks to much more sophisticated attacks. As an example of that sophistication look at the July attacks against 39 web sites in South [...]
Posted in Cyber Defense, Cyberwar Tags: Cyber Defense, cybersecurity, Cyberwar, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) 15 Comments » December 5th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On this Tuesday we are going to have the regular monthly update by Microsoft the release will include a set of patches to fix 12 problem, we can find among the patches a fix to Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability. These releases are issued for windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, 2008 as [...]
Posted in News, Software Security, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Microsoft, Operating Systems, sophos, Update 9 Comments » December 3rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Passware Company has introduced the first commercial software solution that offer a way to Crack files encrypted by BitLocker system. Microsoft released this advanced tool for a full hard drive encryption system and it has integrated it in windows Vista and made it also available on Windows 7 and Windows Server2008. We already listed on [...]
Posted in Pentesting Tags: Encryption, Forensics, Microsoft, Passware Kit Forensic 9.5, Password recovery, Security 12 Comments » December 1st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Virtual private network (VPN) software from Cisco, Juniper and other multiple vendors are concerned for a new vulnerability that makes a big number of customers at Risk this is according to a Monday report issued by US-CERT. Clientless SSL VPN is used to provide internal network access over web browser to several resources such as [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security, News, Vulnerabilities Tags: Clientless SSL VPN, Security, US-CERT, Vulnerability 5 Comments »
