October 25th, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua TippingPoint and Qualys Network security companies are about to develop and deliver a Network security software, to provide their customers a full package for corporate Network security. Both companies are looking to build a business partnership to enhance their customer protection from the current threats and to be able to identify the New Network Vulnerabilities. [...]
September 2nd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Updating software packages, configuring firewall properly and implementing an antivirus solution can help to guarantee good security for a home user. But when it comes for corporate information system that provides services for public network and have an outside access, security should be considered more seriously. Different vulnerabilities and interconnected system creates a new type [...]
May 14th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The cleanup cost for fixing a bug in a homegrown Web application ranges anywhere from $400 to $4,000 to repair, depending on the vulnerability and the way it’s fixed. Security experts traditionally have been hesitant to calculate the actual cost associated with bug fixes because there are so many variables, including the severity of the [...]
March 11th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Damn Vulnerable Linux is another interesting platform for pen testing and vulnerability assessment, it is created for training purposes to IT-Security professional during a university lessons by the IITAC (International Institute for Training, Assessment, and Certification) and secure software Engineering in cooperation with the French Reverse Engineering Team. It is freely available for download here: [...]
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No Comments » February 27th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researchers from NC State have developed a new approach to discover the risk assessment in software security and ensure the application development safety. This new system is called Protection poker and designed to help developers to determine the possible location of vulnerability in the code source even before its deployment. According to this technique the [...]
February 8th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Backtrack needs no introduction in the security and hacking world. It is an excellent bootable live-CD Linux distribution, with a huge collection of security and hacking tools. After seven months of effort here comes the Remote Exploit Dev team with changes in the PXE booting, and WPA table generation and can be read about on [...]
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