February 5th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Blackout: Harbinger of the Future? What I have noticed that before any breach happens no one care about security but if the strike arrive people will start to invest, think and speak about proactive measures. “IT security research analyst Richard Stiennon, author of Surviving Cyber War and the forthcoming Cyber Defense: Countering Targeted Attacks, says [...]
January 15th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today we are sharing all our sensitive information on social networks websites such as Facebook, twitter and more. I have just used a very nice tool that you can use on your lab as a PoC about how it will be possible in a few minutes to download profiles and pages with all pictures locally. [...]
Posted in InfoSec, Social Networking, Uncategorized 
Tags: Facebook, social engineering, Social Networking, Tools 
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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 10th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today many people understand the importance of protecting personal information and privacy. We are terribly sharing all our personal information on social networks, different websites without considering ways for protecting our virtual life. If you visit a website the webserver will start to check user’s cookies to collect data that will help website owner to [...]
Posted in InfoSec, Privacy & data protection, Tools Tags: computer privacy, Ghostery, online privacy, Tools 1 Comment »
January 10th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Nginx is getting more and more used by popular website, if we look at netcraft 9.63% of internet are today using nginx based webserver, this including huge websites such as Rambler, wordpress.com ,Sourceforge.net and vkontakte.ru. These website needs a big performance for serving millions of visitors daily if we talk about vontakte than it’s the [...]
Posted in InfoSec, Open-Source, Tools, Web Security Tags: Naxsi, Nginx, WAF, Web Application Firewall, Web Security, Websecurity No Comments »
January 8th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua phew what a week! We used to summarize what we have on the information security news in four to five articles but this week we have more to share, the first one is about security software company Symantec. Hacker group threatens to release Symantec AV source code Symantec old Anti-Virus source code stolen by an [...]
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January 4th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Brute forcing passwords is a simple way to hack any system, if there is no vulnerability at the remote system hackers will try this attack to get users password, one of major brute force tools issue that you face is different protocols, so you need to have for each one a new utility which can [...]
