February 5th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Blackout: Harbinger of the Future? What I have noticed that before any breach happens no one care about security but if the strike arrive people will start to invest, think and speak about proactive measures. “IT security research analyst Richard Stiennon, author of Surviving Cyber War and the forthcoming Cyber Defense: Countering Targeted Attacks, says [...]
January 29th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Anonymous Attacks Irish Government Websites While we have been following #opmegaupload this week Anonymous group launched a parallel DDoS attack targeting Ireland facilities, here Brian Honan released a blog post about the attack and some very important proactive measures to ensure the security of your systems. http://bhconsulting.ie/securitywatch/?p=1161 CyberSecurity warns against phishers on Twitter Next up [...]
January 15th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sudatel and Alahdath Database Leaked by Anonymous Two attack have been observed over this week by anonymous that are targeting sudanian government, the first is against Sudatel a sudanian based telecommunication operator and ISP where database of users have been dumped to publish a list of sensitive information, the second is targeting alahdath.sd a news/media [...]
January 8th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua phew what a week! We used to summarize what we have on the information security news in four to five articles but this week we have more to share, the first one is about security software company Symantec. Hacker group threatens to release Symantec AV source code Symantec old Anti-Virus source code stolen by an [...]
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No Comments » January 1st, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Efficient Denial of service attacks on web application platform Web applications technologies including PHP, ASP.NET,Java, ColdFusion, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript and more are currently vulnerable to denial of service attack and in order to fix it you need to use a randomized hash function which CRuby 1.9 and Perl already do. As a workaround you can [...]
December 11th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Trustworthy Cyberspace: Strategic Plan for the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Program New document released by the US government that outlines set of interrelated priorities for the agencies of the U.S. government that conduct or sponsor research and development (R&D) in cybersecurity http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/fed_cybersecurity_rd_strategic_plan_2011.pdf The Most Notorious Cybercrooks Of 2011 — And How They Got Caught [...]
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 [...]
