November 30th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Teamp0ison a hacking group have managed to breach servers that are belonging to the united nation, more than thousand of email account have been leaked on pastbin that include usernames and passwords for UN employees. Up to now we have no details on how they breached the system but by looking at the list most [...]
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Tags: cyber attacks, Cybercrime & Hacking, data breach, Data leakage 
No Comments » July 2nd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Following the last message sent by Anonymous to Government of Tunisia and the attack by LulzSec team that joined Anonymous targeting Tunisian govt website http://www.marchespublics.gov.tn. I had a short conversation with Haythem El MIR (@elmirhaythem), CTO of National agency for Computer Security of Tunisia. How do you find the attack by Antisec on different government [...]
November 2nd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to thelocal news Swedish police website was subject for a DDoS attack last week. The result of this attack was a complete disrupt of the official website. On the High traffic the server can treat about 800 requests per second but during the attack they detected about 400 thousand requests per second which is [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Web Security Tags: Botnet, Conficker, cyber attacks, Cybercrime, DDOS, zombies 12 Comments » October 6th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Bitbucket a web Service designed to host programming projects has faced an outages last weekend, the failure period was more than 19 hours which is relatively long. According to Amazon the incident was due to a DDoS attack on their computing infrastructure. This Attack can only brings a doubt in the IT services that are [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security, Cybercrime & Hacking Tags: Amazon, cyber attacks, DDOS 11 Comments » April 26th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The U.S. military is planning to create a new military command to focus on cyberspace and protect its computer networks from cyber attacks, Pentagon officials said Wednesday. The move comes as the White House prepares to release a broader study on the nation’s cyber security. Officials in recent months have warned increasingly that the nation’s [...]
