January 27th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Nearly every Twitter user out there– whether you’re an individual using it to connect with friends or a business trying to network with colleagues or market your company – has probably encountered some form of the prolific Twitter spam that has infiltrated followers, tweets, and direct messages every day. The website has been exposed time [...]
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Tags: Anti-Malwares, Dasient, Moxie Marlinspike, Security, Stuart Anderson, Twitter 
No Comments » September 6th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New spamming campaign has been observed by TrendMicro that is spreading on twitter, the malicious shortened URLs contain a JPEG file from a Facebook domain. Files with extension .JPEG are usually image and pictures extension but here link lead to a worm detected by Trend Micro as WORM_KOLAB.SMQX . The interesting point that cybercriminal added [...]
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 [...]
August 9th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On the 6th of August Twitter went down for a pretty long period. After a while a brief message was added on the Twitter status says they’re fighting off a DDOS attack right now. Well the most interesting that the distributed denial-of-service attack also affected Facebook, LiveJournal and Google’s Blogger. The idea of distributed denial-of-service [...]
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