December 12th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua An international study has revealed a staggering 6% of household computers are harbouring malicious botnets. This equates to over one million households in the UK alone being in regular connection to the criminal networks. The botnets attack websites, send spam, and pass on personal information (such as bank details) to criminals. The Dutch researchers who [...]
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Tags: Botnet, Cyber-Security, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking 
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December 9th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Hacker News lunched an initiative for the New Year release called “Enter At Your Own Risk” Cyber Awareness Campaign. This idea comes as a group of bloggers that will provide articles on magazine to raise the cyber security awareness. Today all the world is connected to each other so we live in a common [...]
Posted in cybersecurity, InfoSec Tags: Awareness, Computer Safety, cybersecurity, online safety No Comments » December 2nd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Cybersecurity Conference & Expo is coming up next Thursday December 8-9 in Washington, DC – delivering in-depth training for government practitioners and essential networking opportunities with government and industry leaders at the forefront of cybersecurity initiatives. The 2-day conference will offer insights and education on topics including: Defensive and offensive tactics to protect your [...]
November 13th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Tunisian Honeynet portal is launched tunCERT have launched their Honeynet portal that include several public information about malwares and cleanup services, portal display and map attacks in the cyberspace. Now you can join LinkedIn group or follow the update on twitter. http://www.honeynet.tn/ Troubleshooting a Blue Screen Very interesting article demonstrate ways to debug and troubleshoot [...]
Posted in cybersecurity, Internet, News Tags: Cyber Defense, Cyber-Security, Infosec News, News, Weekly Roundup No Comments » June 20th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua “Cyber Warfare” a new book by Jason Andress and Steve Winterfeld, this book is designed to cover the strategic, operational, and tactical aspects of today’s cyberspace conflicts. This is not a typical book about cyber warfare as it brings information in a way that can be used to establish a strategic cyber security vision for [...]
Posted in Cyber Defense, cybersecurity, Cyberwar, Infosec Book Tags: Book, Cyber Defense, Cyber Warfare, cybersecurity, Cyberwar, Infosec Book, Sygress 2 Comments » April 20th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to the latest Internet Security Threat Report which has been issued by Symantec, more than 240 million new malicious programs have been observed last year. The study illustrates clearly that cyber criminals increasingly focusing to get help of the online resources to perform their attacks. The study indicates that most malicious activities are observed [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, cybersecurity, News Tags: Internet Security Threat Report, Malware Research, Symantec 10 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 »
