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 [...]
March 21st, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Installation, configuration, and management of software are large part of most system administrator’s jobs. Admin respond to installation and configuration requests from users, apply updates to fix security problems, and supervise transitions to new software releases that may offer both new features and incompatibilities. Microsoft Windows users may take a look at a tool called [...]
January 23rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Constant monitoring of your entire network components can help in detecting different problems at an early stage especially that today all machines are critical and can’t afford even minimal downtime. Redundancy will give you time to recover a failure before having angry users trying to knock down your door, but it doesn’t free us from [...]
Posted in Network security, Open-Source, Software Security Tags: Log Managemnt, Nagios, open source, OpenBSD, opensource 12 Comments » November 27th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua System administrators are faced with a lot of challenges and many different tasks, running across the company or from floor to another will not help in solving these tasks but it will make them more complicated. Now if your infrastructure is based on windows environment using remote desktop is not a good idea, you may [...]
