January 24th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Following latest conditions that exist on the cyber space with expectation of new attacks and threats the Tunisian CERT raised the Alert indicator to the second level. Which mean that there is a moderate risk rating for all cyber users and they need to be more vigilant while using their system. A list of best [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Cybercrime & Hacking 
Tags: Computer Safety, Level Alert, Security, tun-CERT 
No Comments » January 16th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) released their monthly monitor report in collaboration with US-CERT, the report focus to assist the community with ways to secure and protect their environment. If we look at the report it is stated the increase of highly sophisticated malwares that are targeting different operating and industrial [...]
November 14th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Most installations of Apache should come with the mod_rewrite module already configured and active. For those of you that are hosting the web server on a shared hosting environment (ie: you’ve bought a generic web hosting package), then you are forced to edit a file named .HTACCESS in order to setup the securities for your [...]
October 1st, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Cloud Security Rules book is available on Amazon.com and selected book stores from October 2011. This book targets decision makers in organizations worldwide. Whether you run a small company, is the president of a global NGO, or the CISO of a well-known brand – this book brings you relevant knowledge about security in the [...]
June 8th, 2011 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. We are now at the summer season and at this time we travel and move from one location [...]
Posted in Best Practices Tags: Antiviruses, AVG, AVIRA, Best Practices, security essential, Windows & Microsoft 59 Comments » May 19th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA) is a tool that scans a server against a set of best practices recommended for pre-production and production servers. The list of best practices is derived from the Microsoft Information Security & Risk Management Deployment Review Standards used internally at Microsoft to harden production and pre-production environments for line of [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Web Security Tags: Microsoft, WACA 2.0, Web Security, Websecurity, Webserver 26 Comments » May 3rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua ‘Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure’ is a new document published by the National Security Agency, this document comes to help and provide simple users a path for keeping their system secure and protected. Home users are faced by many security troubles, applying all required security measures are complicated due to the fast [...]
