November 8th, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Botnets is becoming the biggest threat and arrived to all system in the globe even mobile devices, I don’t think that there is a person have not been a victim to Botnet, there is many people thinks that the operator is responsible of spamming their customers but this is not true. Security professionals are always [...]
November 2nd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to thelocal news Swedish police website was subject for a DDoS attack last week. The result of this attack was a complete disrupt of the official website. On the High traffic the server can treat about 800 requests per second but during the attack they detected about 400 thousand requests per second which is [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Web Security 
Tags: Botnet, Conficker, cyber attacks, Cybercrime, DDOS, zombies 
12 Comments » May 14th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Computer zombies are out to get you. That may sound like a tagline from a bad B movie, but there’s truth behind it. A “zombie” in the computer lexicon is a computer that has been taken over by a piece of malicious software planted by a hacker typically for the purpose of secretly sending out [...]
January 15th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua It would make ‘one big badass botnet,’ says Finnish security company The computer worm that exploits a months-old Windows bug has infected more than a million PCs in the past 24 hours, a security company said today. Early Wednesday, Helsinki, Finland-based security firm F-Secure Corp. estimated that 3.5 million PCs have been compromised by the [...]
