January 2nd, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua By Haythem El MIR On January 2, 2011 around 22h, the group of activists Anonymous launched one of the most massive and severe attacks against Tunisian cyberspace, protesting against political practices that plague the freedom of Internet access and denouncing abuses related to human rights. The attack lasted ten days, affecting about fifty servers belonging [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking, Cyberwar, Guest blog, InfoSec 
Tags: Anonymous, CPR, DDOS, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service), Dostourona, Hackactivist, Nahdha, opTunisia, sidibouzid, Tunisia, tunisie 
No Comments » January 25th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua WikiLeaks, th3j35t3r, LOIC are words that have been well known in the last period by the infosec community. These words get me directly thinking about the Application‐level DDoS attacks on websites such as Twitter, VISA, and MasterCard. Usually the attack involves large number for HTTP/HTTPS requests to specific sections of the website that could potentially [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking Tags: DDOS, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service), WikiLeaks 17 Comments » November 30th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua During 2010 OWASP Application Security Conference at Washington, researchers demonstrated how it is possible to conduct a new form of distributed denial of service “that floods the web server with a slow HTTP traffic. Currently there is two free utility that may perform this attack d “R U Dead Yet?” and OWASP HTTP POST Tool [...]
November 17th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Botnet Number that is controlled over web servers are five times the number of botnets controlled by IRC-channels this is according to a new research conducted by Team Cymru Security experts. The IRC botnet has decreased significantly due to some limitation over controlling and sending different instruction by the command-and-control (C&C) servers. “the US is [...]
August 10th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua DNS Made Easy have restored there online services after a distributed denial of service attacks on last Saturday. The reported size of DDoS is about 50 Gb/sec. Identity and attackers motives have not been clarified yet but specialists assume that a major hacker’s botnet has been hired to conduct this DDoS attack. On an official [...]
December 6th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There appears to be some activity in the world of DDoS Defense. DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks have taken many forms over the years. From the early Ping Floods and Smurf attacks to much more sophisticated attacks. As an example of that sophistication look at the July attacks against 39 web sites in South [...]
Posted in Cyber Defense, Cyberwar Tags: Cyber Defense, cybersecurity, Cyberwar, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) 15 Comments »
