February 2nd, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today with the increasing number of infected website it is not hard to find viruses , many website are hosting malwares to enhance their botnet and find more online victims. I have just tested a very interesting online resource that I recommend if you have URL to test. Zulu is another online web scanner that [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Malwares 
Tags: Anti-virus, Antiviruses, Malware, Online Malware Scanners, URL Scanner, Zscaler, Zulu 
No Comments » February 1st, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New malicious campaign have been detected by Trend Micro that is circulating on Facebook, the malware is called TROJ_FOOKBACE.A and it starts by inviting Facebook users to install a new cool theme for the Valentine , I think this will attract any user that are looking to show the real love for his partner. By [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking, Malwares Tags: Facebook, Malware, Malwares, Trend Micro No Comments » January 30th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua At MalCon security conference in Mumbai, Peter Kleissner demonstrated how to install bootkit on the next Microsoft operating system Windows 8. The exploit can bypass the new security measures implemented on Windows 8 to load directly in the memory to provide attacker root privilege to the system. “Windows 8 Bootkit and Art of Bootkit Development” [...]
Posted in Malwares, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Bootkit, MalCon, Malware, Malware Research, Malwares, Peter Kleissner, Windows 8 No Comments » January 11th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Windows operating system runs many processes that may include unknown services or viruses, one of the strange processes is svchost.exe, sometimes you find several processes under this name and you need to understand what they are doing. They consume a lot of memory footprint and if you kill them all it will not solve the [...]
December 31st, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua As we are getting to the end of the year, here you can find the top 10 most attractive articles posted on SecTechno, this come in term of readership, information and adding value to the infosec community: 1- Hacking Exposed VoIP/SIP The first article is about VoIP hacking, many of us are using VoIP systems [...]
Posted in InfoSec Tags: Anonymous, Defacements, LulzSec, Malware, Security News, Vulnerability, WikiLeaks No Comments »
December 5th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua All social network websites are expanding their functionality to attract more users; if you are subscribed on Facebook you will notice that it is now possible to use webcam, chat or even play games. For all these features there are the good side but it may also increase risk of having new malicious programs. Today [...]
Posted in InfoSec, Malwares, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Dorkbot worm, Facebook, Malware, Viruses And Worms No Comments » September 30th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua I was noticing, a while back, that my computer and I have some things in common. In particular, we are seriously similar in how we act when we get sick. Here are 10 ways that a computer virus is like the flu, or, if you like, 10 ways my computer with a virus is like [...]
