September 23rd, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua One of the major problems that we face on Internet is infected website, some website owner they are not aware that they are hosting viruses. Usually criminals inject malicious code on to innocent web pages by using Google search engine for locating vulnerable website, and they mainly focus on those parts of the website not [...]
July 14th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Encrypting files and data is a good way to assure their confidentiality, but this will not prevent a third party person from detecting the encrypted storage. Researcher at University of Southern California and Computer Sciences from NUST in Pakistan discovered an interesting way to secure data based on steganography techniques. Presented technique allow a person [...]
July 5th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Security concerns have always haunted the new-to phone users that have adopted internet phone as an alternate to landline phone. Like all other technologies running on internet prone to hacking, VoIP phone can also get hacked by a maliciously intended hacker who wants to eavesdrop or achieve other illegal purposes. Internet phone service is not [...]
July 2nd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Following the last message sent by Anonymous to Government of Tunisia and the attack by LulzSec team that joined Anonymous targeting Tunisian govt website http://www.marchespublics.gov.tn. I had a short conversation with Haythem El MIR (@elmirhaythem), CTO of National agency for Computer Security of Tunisia. How do you find the attack by Antisec on different government [...]
June 18th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Legal hacking is possible as you can create a vulnerable platform to test any new vulnerability without breaking Lows. Person that is looking to test his skills without thinking about proxies or hide his activities and test new web exploits can consider BodgeIt. BodgeIt Store is a vulnerable web application which is currently aimed at [...]
Posted in Tools, Vulnerabilities, Web Security 
Tags: ApplicationSecurity, BodgeIt, Developer, hacking, JSP, OWASP, penetration, Pentesting, Security, Testing, Vulnerable, WebApplication, WebAppSec 
67 Comments » February 9th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua McAfee Security Report for the last quarter of 2010 showed that spam levels reached lowest point since 2006. Compared with the beginning of the year Spams decreased by 62 percent this good result due to stopping Internet service providers that are used by cybercriminals to spread their malicious activity and using better software( patches and [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Malwares Tags: Internet Security Threat Report, Mcafee, Security, Spam 9 Comments » January 9th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sometime you open a webpage or an infected file and the antivirus still silent, without alerting about any suspicious activity on your machine, this is maybe due to not having the latest AV signature or that the malware are encrypted to make the AV not recognize it or that the file is clean and do [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Browser Tags: Antiviruses, Malicious Web Site, Security, Software Security, VirusTotal, Web Security 13 Comments »
