January 16th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) released their monthly monitor report in collaboration with US-CERT, the report focus to assist the community with ways to secure and protect their environment. If we look at the report it is stated the increase of highly sophisticated malwares that are targeting different operating and industrial [...]
October 1st, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Cloud Security Rules book is available on Amazon.com and selected book stores from October 2011. This book targets decision makers in organizations worldwide. Whether you run a small company, is the president of a global NGO, or the CISO of a well-known brand – this book brings you relevant knowledge about security in the [...]
September 30th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua I was noticing, a while back, that my computer and I have some things in common. In particular, we are seriously similar in how we act when we get sick. Here are 10 ways that a computer virus is like the flu, or, if you like, 10 ways my computer with a virus is like [...]
May 3rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua ‘Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure’ is a new document published by the National Security Agency, this document comes to help and provide simple users a path for keeping their system secure and protected. Home users are faced by many security troubles, applying all required security measures are complicated due to the fast [...]
December 1st, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua By Rick Lawhorn CISSP, CISA, CHP, CHSS After the recent announcements concerning WikiLeaks, I began to question the whistleblower website on its motives and the perceived value of disclosure. In fits of brief clarity I find myself, like many others, asking if this latest disclosure was a failure in information security or simply visible failures [...]
November 24th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today using online resources with a vulnerable system can make you exposed for new malwares and attacks, windows or any other operating system provides the daily automatic update for the OS component but not to all browser plugins and programs. Your browser may be insecure for multiple reasons. It may contain a software issue that [...]
Posted in Operating System, Safety rules, Software Security, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks 
Tags: Client-Side Security, Panda ActiveScan 2.0, Plugin Check for Mozilla, Qualys BrowserCheck, Secunia Online Software Inspector (OSI), Vulnerabilities & attacks, Vulnerability management, Vulnerability Research 
11 Comments » August 25th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Getting back your lost laptop is always possible, for mobile devices it is easier to find it because of IMEI number which can identify your device on the GSM Network and it can be displayed by entering *#06# into the keypad on most phones. Changing this unique number is possible but not simple. Now for [...]
