January 27th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Nearly every Twitter user out there– whether you’re an individual using it to connect with friends or a business trying to network with colleagues or market your company – has probably encountered some form of the prolific Twitter spam that has infiltrated followers, tweets, and direct messages every day. The website has been exposed time [...]
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January 2nd, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua By Haythem El MIR On January 2, 2011 around 22h, the group of activists Anonymous launched one of the most massive and severe attacks against Tunisian cyberspace, protesting against political practices that plague the freedom of Internet access and denouncing abuses related to human rights. The attack lasted ten days, affecting about fifty servers belonging [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking, Cyberwar, Guest blog, InfoSec Tags: Anonymous, CPR, DDOS, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service), Dostourona, Hackactivist, Nahdha, opTunisia, sidibouzid, Tunisia, tunisie No Comments » 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 [...]
Posted in cybersecurity, Guest blog Tags: Botnet, Cyber-Security, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking 1 Comment » November 10th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Some companies produce more documents than services or products. Business plans, contracts, RFPs and RFQs, financial data… it’s an endless list. Many are created and managed online via the corporate Intranet, but what happens when they need to be transferred or shared? Without an online document management system to protect the confidential data, how can [...]
November 4th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Networks are huge. It is mind blowing how many different elements make up a network. You have at a high level the software and hardware. You get many different flavors of operating systems which might also differ in patch level and service packs installed on each. Hardware is even more diverse; apart from the different [...]
Posted in Guest blog Tags: GFI, GFI Languard, Guest blog, Vulnerabilities Assessment, Vulnerability management No Comments » October 14th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A network scanner is a must for every organization. An important feature in this great network security tool is patch management. Irrespective of which network scanner you use, there is a certain procedure that one should follow when handling patch management in order to avoid future problems. The first thing a system administrator should do [...]
Posted in Guest blog Tags: GFI, GFI Languard, network scanner, Patch Management Utility No Comments » June 13th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Web-based threats, cyberslacking, uncontrolled web browsing and the downloading of unauthorized material, are a few reasons behind the increasing need for organizations to deploy internet access control within their infrastructure. Nearly every organization today is connected to the internet, and the majority also give their employees full access. Internet use is seen by some as [...]
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