January 25th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua One of the most dangerous and common threats to a company’s web security is unrestricted Internet access. In a well-intentioned but ill-advised attempt to show users they are trusted, or from the false assumption that restricting or monitoring Internet access is bad for morale and too much work, companies frequently prefer to rely on their [...]
January 16th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) released their monthly monitor report in collaboration with US-CERT, the report focus to assist the community with ways to secure and protect their environment. If we look at the report it is stated the increase of highly sophisticated malwares that are targeting different operating and industrial [...]
November 8th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On Monday there has been some outage for several Internet service providers. This is accepted for small companies with limited online resources but for major ISP’s situation change. Level3 is one of the companies affected by this problem due to software update for juniper network router (update from version 10.2 to 10.3). This equipment failure [...]
Posted in Network security 
Tags: Network Avalibility, network discovery, Network Monitoring 
No Comments » July 27th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Remote backdoors is ways that are used by hackers to maintain access on the compromised systems. Types of remote backdoors generally fall into three categories: Network Socket Listener, Trojan, or covert channels. Here there is an opensource tool that is called CloseTheDoor that can help you to discover and prevent these three categories of backdoor. [...]
July 11th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Depending on organizations structure and IT Infrastructure, the process for deploying new patches on operating systems can be complex and take considerable time. GFI Languard automates and simplifies this process, to make the transition quickly, almost without interruption to the company. Full installing or reinstalling any new update to software packages is like to repair [...]
May 28th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sniffers are very important tools for analyzing and capturing all packets in real time. If you want to understand what Malware change on the network level here you can find some useful sniffing utilities: Wireshark’s GUI Fantastic packet analyzer tool for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and various other platforms, at first this tool is [...]
Posted in Malwares, Network security, Open-Source Tags: Malware, Malware Research, Network Monitoring, open source, Snort, TCPDump, Wireshark 58 Comments » May 3rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua ‘Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure’ is a new document published by the National Security Agency, this document comes to help and provide simple users a path for keeping their system secure and protected. Home users are faced by many security troubles, applying all required security measures are complicated due to the fast [...]
