January 24th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Following latest conditions that exist on the cyber space with expectation of new attacks and threats the Tunisian CERT raised the Alert indicator to the second level. Which mean that there is a moderate risk rating for all cyber users and they need to be more vigilant while using their system. A list of best [...]
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December 9th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Hacker News lunched an initiative for the New Year release called “Enter At Your Own Risk” Cyber Awareness Campaign. This idea comes as a group of bloggers that will provide articles on magazine to raise the cyber security awareness. Today all the world is connected to each other so we live in a common [...]
Posted in cybersecurity, InfoSec Tags: Awareness, Computer Safety, cybersecurity, online safety No Comments » July 5th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua System monitoring is the most important method for detecting all kinds of Trojans, viruses and any malicious activities on the system. Maintaining control over file integrity can be acheived by installing a tripewire which has the ability to detect changes on each system on which it is installed, checks the integrity of normal binaries and [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Open-Source, Operating System, Safety rules, Software Security Tags: Best Practices, Computer Safety, Linux, Security, UNIX 11 Comments » June 27th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Protecting your systems against all manner of intrusions will provide more safety for your virtual life, by using complex passwords and a regular file check against changes, plus restricting anything and everything will keep these threats away. Computersremain the easiest point to compromise if there is a physical access. At schools, universities, cafes or the [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Open-Source, Safety rules Tags: Best Practices, Computer Safety, Linux, Security 10 Comments » March 26th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researchers at SRI International updated their Conficker paper. They have provided a very useful analysis of the Conficker malware. The last variant of Conficker, referred to as Conficker C leaves as little as 15% of the original B code base untouched the main purpose of the Conficker is to provide the authors with a secure [...]
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