January 28th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Any person that are using internet are faced by all kind of threats including hackers, malwares and viruses. We authenticate to some critical services without considering if we are secure or not. Some people use shared computers on public internet for checking emails; others just share their sensitive passwords with co-workers and friends. The question [...]
January 12th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There is several ways to encrypt your files, this week we posted about Vanishcrypt useful tool that can help to create a virtual encrypted storage on your local system, some people prefer to encrypt just a single file, so you don’t need to create a storage but you have a document that you want to [...]
Posted in Encryption, InfoSec, Open-Source, Software Security, Tools 
Tags: AES, Authentication/Encryption, AxCrypt, Encrypted Files 
No Comments » January 9th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sometimes you need to store files and information in a way that they do not fall into stranger hands. A simple, free and useful program VanishCrypt allows you to create encrypted virtual drives, as well as entire sections of a hard disk to store sensitive files. VanishCrypt can be a good alternative to truecrypt and [...]
Posted in Encryption, Tools Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Encryption, hard disk encryption, Tools No Comments » August 7th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Gpg4win an open-source software that enable user to encrypt files and emails, The free package includes a number of cryptography tools developed for the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) for encrypting and signing email and files. it includes several component: GnuPG The core; this is the actual encryption tool. Kleopatra A certificate manager [...]
Posted in E-Mail Security, Encryption Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Email Security, Encryption, GPG4Win No Comments » July 30th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New demonstration have been made by German researchers that allow attacking Chips encryption mechanism, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) processors used in embedded systems at military and aerospace industries, are vulnerable to attacks based on an analysis of the energy consumed in the process of integrating the chip. Third-party attack on the encryption mechanism of [...]
July 14th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Encrypting files and data is a good way to assure their confidentiality, but this will not prevent a third party person from detecting the encrypted storage. Researcher at University of Southern California and Computer Sciences from NUST in Pakistan discovered an interesting way to secure data based on steganography techniques. Presented technique allow a person [...]
November 20th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Any kind of Information that is transmitted on a corporate network and Internet can be easily intercepted by a malicious user or interested third party person. Many modern algorithms that have been considered as a standard after sometime we find them vulnerable. As a result and to follow a new standard we should change all [...]
