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 
No Comments » October 12th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Politicians follow wherever voters take them, and today’s voter spends a lot more time than ever before on social networking sites like Facebook. People watch less television, read fewer newspapers and magazines and hardly listen to the radio at all. Politicians get far less bang for the buck advertising on “mainstream media” than they used [...]
Posted in Social Networking Tags: Internet News, Internet Security, Politics, Social Media 1 Comment » August 24th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New spamming campaign has been reported by Trend micro. This type of malware is spreading through Facebook. The downloaded malware is another type of Zbot, also called Zeus a Trojan horse that attempts to steal confidential information from the compromised computer. It may also download configuration files and updates from the Internet. Malware spreads by [...]
Posted in Malwares, Social Networking Tags: Malware Research, Trend Micro, Zeus, Zeus bot 2 Comments » March 29th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New Cross-site scripting vulnerability has been detected on Facebook and widely exploited in the mobile API version, this vulnerability allows a malicious user to include JavaScript content into a website and redirect victim’s browser to the prepared URL. I have already saw this flaw in the last few days, many of my friend list are [...]
Posted in Social Networking, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks, Web Security Tags: Facebook, XSS, XSS Vulnerability 48 Comments » October 18th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today there has been a very interesting post on Security-Faq regarding password security and new Facebook One time password solution. According to Lee: What the team over at Facebook has come up with is a way to get a temporary password at anytime when you are on a wireless network that you do not trust. [...]
Posted in Social Networking, Web Security Tags: Facebook, fraud, identity, information gathering, Intelius, invasion, owned, passwords, Privacy, profile 14 Comments » October 2nd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New worm is spreading over Social network. This Malware is attacking Thousands of Facebook users by exploiting a java script gap, exploit forces user to “like” a Facebook page, which then automatically spreads it through a user’s wall by leaving a malicious link on victim’s wall. Now the worm spreads by clicking the link “Shocking! [...]
Posted in Social Networking, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Facebook, Malware, Security, Social Network, Viruses And Worms, Worm 7 Comments » August 13th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New Vulnerability has been discovered in facebook that allows an attacker to obtain all users credential on the social network website. By having the email address an attacker can get the name and pictures of victims. The vulnerability can works regardless of the account privacy settings, this mean that even if your account hidden from [...]
Posted in Social Networking, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Facebook, Privacy, Security 12 Comments »
