February 1st, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Comodo have been well known for the quality of security product they are providing, especially firewalls and host based intrusion prevention system. I started to use comodo pc firewall when it made it freely for home users, step by step they created their antivirus solution but at first it was not a very good one according [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Tools 
Tags: Anti-Malwares, Antiviruses, av-comparatives, AV-Test, Comodo Cleaning Essentials, Tools, VB100 
No Comments » January 31st, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Tracking and monitoring network and computer activity is very important from the security prospective, Today we can find many tools that help to perform these tasks including Activity monitor, Activity monitor is one of these programs that helps to do the following: Control sent &received email and HTTP webmail(Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo mail). Monitor and record [...]
January 30th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Dave (ReL1K) Kennedy author of The Social-Engineering Toolkit (SET) have released last December another interesting tool written in python that helps to protect *nix based system with a combination of honeypot , monitoring and prevention systems. Honeypot is a good way to trick attacker by simulating a vulnerable system to attract hacker or a malicious [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Tools Tags: Artillery, brute force, Dave (ReL1K) Kennedy, Honeypot, open source, Security, SET, Social Engineering Toolkit, SSH, Tools No Comments » 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 20th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Keeping your system updated is very important to avoid new malwares and to fix vulnerabilities that allow a malicious user have a full control on your system, well I used to enable the automatic update on all Microsoft based systems as we have monthly the patch Tuesday tradition. Now this seems to be not enough [...]
January 16th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Malwares on mobile system are increasing dramatically, especially on android smartphone system, this week Trendmicro security lab posted about new campaign targeting this system by infecting users over web applications (One-Click Billing Fraud Scheme Through Android App Found). After infecting the smartphone with ANDROIDOS_FAKETIMER some information will be sent to certain URL’s on the web, [...]
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 »
