April 26th, 2010 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Ensuring security in modern computer networks with a large number of hosts and devices requires a great effort, and keeping track of all events and logs becoming more and more difficult. It is important to have a vulnerability management system to allow you maintain control over your network and solve any related problems. Generally, network [...]
Posted in Network security, Vulnerabilities & attacks 
Tags: open source, OSSIM, Risk Management, SIGVI 
9 Comments » April 22nd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua At Source Conference in Boston new vulnerabilities on GSM mobile network has been demonstrated by Carmen San Diego, Don Bailey, iSec Partners & Nick DePetrillo that allow a person to track any mobile phone across the world. The demo has showed how it is possible to determine user specific location and get more details and [...]
April 20th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to the latest Internet Security Threat Report which has been issued by Symantec, more than 240 million new malicious programs have been observed last year. The study illustrates clearly that cyber criminals increasingly focusing to get help of the online resources to perform their attacks. The study indicates that most malicious activities are observed [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, cybersecurity, News Tags: Internet Security Threat Report, Malware Research, Symantec 10 Comments » April 18th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Stephan Chenette has introduced at BlakHat Europe conference in Barcelona a new utility for Firefox, this plugin called Fireshark. Fireshark is a tool, made up of a Firefox plugin and a set of postprocessing scripts that allows you to capture web traffic from the core of your web browser, enabling you to log events and [...]
Posted in Tools, Vulnerabilities & attacks, Web Security Tags: BlackHat, Fireshark, Malicious Web Site, Websecurity 13 Comments » April 12th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A new tool has been introduced by Microsoft for analyzing Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 security level. Security Compliance Manager is the name of this tool which is designed to simplify protection standard usage and security requirement at the IT environment. Security Compliance Manager provides a single application to automate system management configuration and [...]
Posted in Operating System, Software Security, Tools Tags: Microsoft, patches, Security Compliance Manager, Windows7 11 Comments » April 10th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua These days there are a great variety of security software designed to organize and manage global networks. Protecting internal resources from external threats, monitoring the network and blocking certain suspicious services is as a priority for any IT security professional. One available solution is Smothwall. Smothwall is a free, open source, customized distribution that includes [...]
Posted in Network security, Software Security Tags: Firewall, hardware, IPCop, Linux, Network security, open source, Security, Smoothwall, UTM, Vyatta 12 Comments » April 3rd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today we can find a different Linux distribution for protecting the network infrastructure. Most of them are based on the opensource software and provide a solid protection against viruses, network attacks and even spam filtering. But selecting perfect solution can take more time than to implement it. so this post comes to provide a clear [...]
Posted in Network security Tags: Endian, Firewall, hardware, Linux, Network security, opensource, Security, Software 12 Comments »
