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 » August 10th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The hacker group published a YouTube video announcing their plan, and urging others to take down Facebook on November 5th. Maybe that the group has created the new tool called #RefRef and they feel to use it for launching distributed denial of service against Facebook. I think the Facebook needs to take the warning seriously. [...]
August 3rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous just announced that they had hacked into the Italian Police IT company http://www.vitrociset.it/index/ the website currently displaying the following image: On the other hand the group Antisec has also developed a new tool for DDoS attack we know that they have used Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) for attacking Tunisia [...]
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 21st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On previous post we shared the way to prepare our system to DDoS attack and the way to mitigate the risk. Now it is important to react in the good moment and make an effective action during the attack. Monitoring routers connection can help victim to detect the beginning of the attack. First we should [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security, cybersecurity, Web Security Tags: DDOS, freeBSD, Security 11 Comments » November 15th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There are some points that can helps to carefully prepare our systems to avoid Distributed Denial of Service: 1- Prepare a simple and fast way to reboot remotely servers exposed to external network (webservers ,mailservers ,application servers..) this can be using SSH, we can also create a second network interface to access the server while [...]
