August 25th, 2010 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Getting back your lost laptop is always possible, for mobile devices it is easier to find it because of IMEI number which can identify your device on the GSM Network and it can be displayed by entering *#06# into the keypad on most phones. Changing this unique number is possible but not simple. Now for [...]
August 20th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Tools for the first part may not be completed without SpoonWEP/SpoonWPA which firstly introduced in BackTrack3, this is also a part of aircrack-ng with a graphical interface allows pentester to take the same channel of the Access point and crack the security keys of the AP. Another very interesting tool is Karmetasploit which allows you [...]
Posted in Pentesting, Tools 
Tags: BackTrack, cracking 802.11 WEP, Security, Wireless Security, WLAN 
11 Comments » August 18th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Symantec researchers reported a new malicious application in the virtual store Android Market, this application can determine users location in real time on AndroidOS. Tapsnake is the name of the game which is a version of the popular game “Snake”. Game developers did not provide any information that the application sends each 15 minute victims [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, News, Software Security Tags: Android, Malware, Symantec, Tapsnake, Trojan 5 Comments » August 13th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New Vulnerability has been discovered in facebook that allows an attacker to obtain all users credential on the social network website. By having the email address an attacker can get the name and pictures of victims. The vulnerability can works regardless of the account privacy settings, this mean that even if your account hidden from [...]
Posted in Social Networking, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Facebook, Privacy, Security 12 Comments » August 10th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua DNS Made Easy have restored there online services after a distributed denial of service attacks on last Saturday. The reported size of DDoS is about 50 Gb/sec. Identity and attackers motives have not been clarified yet but specialists assume that a major hacker’s botnet has been hired to conduct this DDoS attack. On an official [...]
August 6th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft Security Response Center released an advance notification regarding new patches that are intended to fix 34 vulnerabilities, there will be about 14 security bulletins the severity rating for eight of them are critical and the other six are important . Impact of the critical vulnerabilities is under the status of allowing an attacker to [...]
August 6th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Trend Micro threat researchers has reported detecting several malicious web files that are using a strange digital signature which looks like be signed by antivirus company Kaspersky. After analyzing the files and there signatures there has been a clear difference between the legitimate signature and fake one, the fake copy includes wrong hash values, and [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Cybercrime, News Tags: Kaspersky, Malicious Web Site, Malware Research, Trend Micro 2 Comments »
