February 1st, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Comodo have been well known for the quality of security product they are providing, especially firewalls and host based intrusion prevention system. I started to use comodo pc firewall when it made it freely for home users, step by step they created their antivirus solution but at first it was not a very good one according [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Tools 
Tags: Anti-Malwares, Antiviruses, av-comparatives, AV-Test, Comodo Cleaning Essentials, Tools, VB100 
No Comments » January 31st, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Tracking and monitoring network and computer activity is very important from the security prospective, Today we can find many tools that help to perform these tasks including Activity monitor, Activity monitor is one of these programs that helps to do the following: Control sent &received email and HTTP webmail(Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo mail). Monitor and record [...]
January 30th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Dave (ReL1K) Kennedy author of The Social-Engineering Toolkit (SET) have released last December another interesting tool written in python that helps to protect *nix based system with a combination of honeypot , monitoring and prevention systems. Honeypot is a good way to trick attacker by simulating a vulnerable system to attract hacker or a malicious [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Tools Tags: Artillery, brute force, Dave (ReL1K) Kennedy, Honeypot, open source, Security, SET, Social Engineering Toolkit, SSH, Tools No Comments »
January 15th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today we are sharing all our sensitive information on social networks websites such as Facebook, twitter and more. I have just used a very nice tool that you can use on your lab as a PoC about how it will be possible in a few minutes to download profiles and pages with all pictures locally. [...]
Posted in InfoSec, Social Networking, Uncategorized Tags: Facebook, social engineering, Social Networking, Tools 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 [...]
January 10th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today many people understand the importance of protecting personal information and privacy. We are terribly sharing all our personal information on social networks, different websites without considering ways for protecting our virtual life. If you visit a website the webserver will start to check user’s cookies to collect data that will help website owner to [...]
Posted in InfoSec, Privacy & data protection, Tools Tags: computer privacy, Ghostery, online privacy, Tools No Comments » January 9th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sometimes you need to store files and information in a way that they do not fall into stranger hands. A simple, free and useful program VanishCrypt allows you to create encrypted virtual drives, as well as entire sections of a hard disk to store sensitive files. VanishCrypt can be a good alternative to truecrypt and [...]
Posted in Encryption, Tools Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Encryption, hard disk encryption, Tools No Comments »
