January 27th, 2010 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua New version of the anti-spam filter SpamAssassin Today has been released, the free anti spam solution is widely used by hundreds of thousands organization around the globe. Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.0 offers a new way of updating rules for spam filtering. Now the rules database are separated from the main product and loaded through the automatic [...]
January 22nd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A popular Irish discussion forum, Boards.ie has been today forced to change all users’ passwords this is due to a security breach where hackers compromised a part of users database on the server. Tom Murphy one of the portal founders has made an official statement that the site is “regularly the target for disruption and [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking, Internet, News 
Tags: Boards.ie, Cybercrime & Hacking, Database, Forum 
10 Comments » January 17th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua SSH is a perfect security alternative to Telnet and has been used by system administrators and IT managers to configure and implement servers and network devices, here I wanted to list manual on Secure Shell usage. First let’s start by choosing SSH client here we will find no problem because generally there are two accepted [...]
January 13th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Hackers managed to steal authentication credentials for more than eight thousand New York based bank customers. The incident happened after by passing Internet security measures for an online banking system server. According to early this week press release, the attack on Suffolk County National Bank (SCNB) started on the 18th of November last year and [...]
January 11th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua After approximately one year since the first beta version of BackTrack 4 has been released, today the Team has made the BackTrack 4 Final Release available for download. The Beta version was firstly introduced on February 2009 and we already listed the new features on SecTechno. BackTrack is an excellent collection of security tools for [...]
January 11th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Ubuntu Privacy Remix (UPR) developers released a new modified version of the Linux Ubuntu operating system and now are available for download online. UPR is a Live CD Destro that aims to provide users with an environment that allows to safely handling personal information, the system installed on the computer running UPR remains untouched. The [...]
Posted in News, Operating System, Privacy & data protection Tags: LiveCD, Privacy, Security, Ubuntu Privacy Remix 8 Comments » January 7th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The New Year 2010 starts with a no good surprise not only for system administrators but also for many European Banks customers. Many cardholders were not able to use cash machines or make payments via terminals. The problem was caused by vulnerability in the software chips installed with ATMs. Bugs corrupted not only ATM software [...]
Posted in News, Software Security Tags: ATM, Security, SpamAssassin, Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) 13 Comments »
