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 9th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sometimes you need to store files and information in a way that they do not fall into stranger hands. A simple, free and useful program VanishCrypt allows you to create encrypted virtual drives, as well as entire sections of a hard disk to store sensitive files. VanishCrypt can be a good alternative to truecrypt and [...]
Posted in Encryption, Tools Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Encryption, hard disk encryption, Tools No Comments » August 7th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Gpg4win an open-source software that enable user to encrypt files and emails, The free package includes a number of cryptography tools developed for the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) for encrypting and signing email and files. it includes several component: GnuPG The core; this is the actual encryption tool. Kleopatra A certificate manager [...]
Posted in E-Mail Security, Encryption Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Email Security, Encryption, GPG4Win No Comments » November 20th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Any kind of Information that is transmitted on a corporate network and Internet can be easily intercepted by a malicious user or interested third party person. Many modern algorithms that have been considered as a standard after sometime we find them vulnerable. As a result and to follow a new standard we should change all [...]
June 1st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua After more than three years since Symantec stopped the support and development of L0phtcrack the tool that provided a titanic opportunity for passwords auditing and recovery. Here comes yesterday the same team with the new version L0phtcrack 6. As the project rights being reacquired by the original authors from Symantec it was possible for them [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Password Security, Pentesting Tags: Authentication/Encryption, hacking, L0phtcrack 6, Operating Systems, Pentest, Security 1 Comment » April 13th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There’s no debate over the fact that data breaches are sharply on the rise. In mid-March the chief enterprise risk officer for Visa, Ellen Richey, said that common sense dictates that a challenging economy will produce increased data theft activity – sales of stolen data remains an exceptionally vibrant business despite the downturn. Richey added [...]
February 23rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua security researcher Dan Kaminsky who works at security services firm IOActive, said this week at BlackHat that the time may have come for IT vendors and users to consider broad adoption of the more-permanent security protections offered by DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, technology. The cache-poisoning flaw was publicly disclosed last July and after several [...]
Posted in News Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Current Control, Digital security, DNS, Domain Names, Internet, Network security, Networking, PKI, Security 2 Comments »
