January 23rd, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua On some hacking forums user of ZeuS expressed disappointment as they are not finding improvement in the malware program. The problem that they need to update source code to find new bugs allows having more income. According to Brian Krebs article malware writer will not just sell you the product but they provide customers with [...]
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No Comments » December 25th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua This week have been full with new security vulnerabilities and attacks, here is a summary of the news: Anonymous takes down Egyptian Websites Anonymous are still active even in holidays , in what appears to be a massive and carefully orchestrated DDoS attack, a dozen Egyptian government websites have been taken down. Sites ranging from [...]
Posted in From the Web Tags: Anonymous, Cybercrime & Hacking, Web Defacement, Website Hacking No Comments » December 12th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua An international study has revealed a staggering 6% of household computers are harbouring malicious botnets. This equates to over one million households in the UK alone being in regular connection to the criminal networks. The botnets attack websites, send spam, and pass on personal information (such as bank details) to criminals. The Dutch researchers who [...]
Posted in cybersecurity, Guest blog Tags: Botnet, Cyber-Security, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking 1 Comment » December 8th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Hundreds of websites are hacked on daily bases but when it comes to multinational company with big budgets and investment this will be the first topic on news. Today a Greek hacker defaced first soft drink company Coca cola in Norway. Announcing the attack with the cause have been published by anonymous user on Pastbin [...]
December 4th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua How to Recover a Hacked Facebook Account Facebook incidents are very common Robert Siciliano provides a simple way that you can use if you feel that someone have used your Facebook account without your permission or you are looking to recover your account. https://infosecisland.com/blogview/18316-How-to-Recover-a-Hacked-Facebook-Account.html Proactive Botnet Countermeasures an Offensive Approach A very interesting paper that [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in InfoSec, News Tags: cyber attacks, Cybercrime & Hacking, data breach, Data leakage No Comments » November 11th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Article By Rick Lawhorn CISSP, CISA, CHP, CHSS Internet Terrorism, Cyber Security Attacks, electronic terror, “bad guys”…whichever term you may use still means the same thing…groups of people perform targeted attacks on resources to cause harm or disruption for their own gain. No matter what label we give them, they still want what you have [...]
