May 27th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua A leading security researcher has warned that Google risks repeating Apple’s mistakes on security with its new Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS is a Linux-based operating system designed to work exclusively with web applications. Chrome netbooks running the new OS will be available from Google’s partners Samsung and Acer from June. In a launch announcement, [...]
March 12th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua GFI Software has released GFI MAX MailArchive, an external service that allows business to archive email messages in a geographically distributed data centers for the possibility to follow prepare and search content. Platform-service can be used either independently or as an integrated service with GFI MAX MailProtection to provide comprehensive spam and virus protection, always [...]
September 18th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Chemtrails, Vegas, Roulette and the IRS By Rick Lawhorn CISSP, CISA, CHP, CHSS No matter if you believe in conspiratorial chemtrails or scientifically sound contrails, the ability to see where you have been and guess which direction you are potentially heading is paramount to data security in the clouds. Of course, data flying around the [...]
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 [...]
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 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 » November 21st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On previous post we shared the way to prepare our system to DDoS attack and the way to mitigate the risk. Now it is important to react in the good moment and make an effective action during the attack. Monitoring routers connection can help victim to detect the beginning of the attack. First we should [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security, cybersecurity, Web Security Tags: DDOS, freeBSD, Security 11 Comments »
