June 27th, 2010 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Protecting your systems against all manner of intrusions will provide more safety for your virtual life, by using complex passwords and a regular file check against changes, plus restricting anything and everything will keep these threats away. Computersremain the easiest point to compromise if there is a physical access. At schools, universities, cafes or the [...]
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Tags: Best Practices, Computer Safety, Linux, Security 
10 Comments » June 27th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Security researchers warn of a fast increase in the infected website with spam-botnet Asprox. Asprox botnet is carrying out attack using SQL-injection, which allowed this botnet to double its presence on the service provider’s access application. For one night the number of compromised resources increased from 5 to 11 thousand. The botnet usually starts by [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Asprox, Botnet, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Malware 11 Comments » June 24th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A new release has been issued by Mozilla. Firefox 3.6.4 is the first open source web browser that integrates the plugins functionality in the main process of the navigator. This release comes to decrease the number of Firefox crashes. As usual you can find two versions for both Linux and Windows operating systems. Mike Beltzner [...]
Posted in Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks, Web Security Tags: Firefox, Mozilla, Web Security 9 Comments » June 22nd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua GNU Screen is one of the favored tools for system administrators and Unix-based users. It is very popular and many articles have been published about it in the most reputable magazines and journals. Now what makes this tool powerful? Why do so many users prefer it while so few people even know about it? Nowadays, [...]
Posted in Open-Source Tags: GNU Screen, open source, Secure Shell, SSH, System Management 11 Comments » June 21st, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The third edition of Security Acts Magazine has been issued. This number includes a small and hopefully interesting article I have submitted on the Wireless penetration testing (War driving). Wish you a happy reading! http://www.securityacts.com/securityacts03.pdf make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
Posted in Security Magazine Tags: Security, Security Acts, War-driving, Wireless Security 12 Comments » June 13th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Skype certainly provides a very nice way for voice communication and chat, but questions remains: Is the system is secure and reliable? Can outsiders capture the conversation or intercept data? To answer these questions, we will be searching different previous ways demonstrated by security researchers to hack Skype. Intercepting data on VoIP systems is no [...]
June 10th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researchers at eSoft Threat Prevention Team have discovered thousands of fake websites that looks like YouTube. The website contains video which leads to installing a downloader Trojan with a less than 20% detection rate according to Virus Total. The site is looking very closely to Youtube with a high quality to make it looks legitimate [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Internet, News, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Malicious Web Site, Malware, YouTube 11 Comments »
