March 25th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua New standard for penetration testing has been created with a wide set of rules to improve ethical hacking work and penetration testing mission. Penetration Testing Execution Standard – PTES is the name of this standard that will help to have a clear path for pentester to check different vulnerabilities and provide customers a high quality [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Pentesting 
Tags: Ethical Hacking, Penetration Tester, Pentesting, PTES, Standards 
18 Comments » September 25th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua In recent years malicious website threats are increasing dramatically, this is due to the increasing number of online active users and web resources. Web-based attacks are growing, most Malware like TDSS, Zeus are spreading over the Internet. This is only what we know about cybercrime. Attacker’s main purposes are to urge victims to download and [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Best Practices, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: cybersecurity, Software Security, TDSS, Zeus 9 Comments » July 5th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua System monitoring is the most important method for detecting all kinds of Trojans, viruses and any malicious activities on the system. Maintaining control over file integrity can be acheived by installing a tripewire which has the ability to detect changes on each system on which it is installed, checks the integrity of normal binaries and [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Open-Source, Operating System, Safety rules, Software Security Tags: Best Practices, Computer Safety, Linux, Security, UNIX 11 Comments » 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 [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Open-Source, Safety rules Tags: Best Practices, Computer Safety, Linux, Security 10 Comments » January 17th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua SSH is a perfect security alternative to Telnet and has been used by system administrators and IT managers to configure and implement servers and network devices, here I wanted to list manual on Secure Shell usage. First let’s start by choosing SSH client here we will find no problem because generally there are two accepted [...]
September 8th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Yesterday ENISA the European Network and Information Security Agency have released a report called ATM crime.This report aims to provide an overview of the European situation and ways to avoid ATM crime. According to the report last year there were an increase in the number of ATM attacks by 149% while there were 10 302 [...]
June 30th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua ENISA has produced video clips which will sensitize your employees to information security risks and remind them of the basic golden rules. The ENISA video clips are available for download and use in any information security training programme, awareness activity and company website. It is becoming very important for any successful global business to ensure [...]
