June 21st, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Any web page nowadays contains images, frames and ads belonging to different domains which force our browsers to do a series of DNS queries before being able to render the page completely. Since every single query involves packets traveling on the network the whole process can take a considerable amount of time. When you browse [...]
November 25th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today Morning Secunia website was out of service and the reason of this service disruption is a DNS-attack. Many users thought that the website was compromised by hackers but that was not the case, the attack was made on the DNS server by redirecting users attempting to enter Secunia website to Hackers Website IP address. [...]
December 18th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today Morning Twitter website was out of service for two hours and the reason of this service disruption is a DNS-attack. Many users thought that the website was compromised by hackers from “Iranian cyber army” by exploiting WordPress vulnerabilities but that was not the case, the attack was made on the DNS server by redirecting [...]
May 11th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Google Morocco domain (Google.co.ma) was briefly hacked on Saturday May 10 by hackers referring to themselves as ‘PAKbugs’. Google.co.ma is functioning again, but for several hours on Saturday the site was down and this gave enough opportunity for people visiting the site to generate screenshots of the hacked domain. When users visited the site, [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking, Vulnerabilities 
Tags: Arab World, DNS, Google, hacking, International, Morocco, Web 2.0 
1 Comment » February 23rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua security researcher Dan Kaminsky who works at security services firm IOActive, said this week at BlackHat that the time may have come for IT vendors and users to consider broad adoption of the more-permanent security protections offered by DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, technology. The cache-poisoning flaw was publicly disclosed last July and after several [...]
Posted in News Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Current Control, Digital security, DNS, Domain Names, Internet, Network security, Networking, PKI, Security 2 Comments » February 5th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A new class of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which can overwhelm even mainstream targets, is imminent, a security researcher warned this week. DNS amplification was first widely publicized about three years ago when computer security experts Gadi Evron and Randal Vaughn published a research paper that examined a scenario in which criminals abuse recursive DNS [...]
