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 [...]
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Tags: Awareness, Computer Safety, cybersecurity, online safety 
1 Comment » December 2nd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Cybersecurity Conference & Expo is coming up next Thursday December 8-9 in Washington, DC – delivering in-depth training for government practitioners and essential networking opportunities with government and industry leaders at the forefront of cybersecurity initiatives. The 2-day conference will offer insights and education on topics including: Defensive and offensive tactics to protect your [...]
August 27th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Malysian CERT announced a new free service DNSwatch that will check every website address your computer is trying to access. Basically the checks are performed while you’re browsing the internet, clicking a link in an email, or running a program “under the hood” trying to communicate with servers for information or updates. DNSwatch will help [...]
Posted in Web Security Tags: cybersecurity, CyberSecurity Malaysia, DNSwatch, MyCERT, Web Security 1 Comment » June 20th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua “Cyber Warfare” a new book by Jason Andress and Steve Winterfeld, this book is designed to cover the strategic, operational, and tactical aspects of today’s cyberspace conflicts. This is not a typical book about cyber warfare as it brings information in a way that can be used to establish a strategic cyber security vision for [...]
Posted in Cyber Defense, cybersecurity, Cyberwar, Infosec Book Tags: Book, Cyber Defense, Cyber Warfare, cybersecurity, Cyberwar, Infosec Book, Sygress 2 Comments » June 13th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Web-based threats, cyberslacking, uncontrolled web browsing and the downloading of unauthorized material, are a few reasons behind the increasing need for organizations to deploy internet access control within their infrastructure. Nearly every organization today is connected to the internet, and the majority also give their employees full access. Internet use is seen by some as [...]
Posted in Guest blog, Internet Tags: Access Control, Cybercrime, cybersecurity, GFI, Internet Security, Websurfing 18 Comments » September 25th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua In recent years malicious website threats are increasing dramatically, this is due to the increasing number of online active users and web resources. Web-based attacks are growing, most Malware like TDSS, Zeus are spreading over the Internet. This is only what we know about cybercrime. Attacker’s main purposes are to urge victims to download and [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Best Practices, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: cybersecurity, Software Security, TDSS, Zeus 9 Comments » July 14th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Hackers have created a new version of the Zeus crimeware toolkit that’s designed to swipe bank login details of Spanish, German, UK and US banks. The malware payload, described by CA as Zeus version 3, is far more selective in the banks it targets. Previous versions targeted financial institutions around the world while the latest [...]
