June 10th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Xplico is a project released under GPL that decodes packet captures (PCAP), extracting the likes of email content (POP, IMAP, and SMTP protocols), all HTTP content, VoIP calls (SIP), IM chats, FTP, TFTP, and many others. It can be used on platforms with an embedded ARM core processor or typical multi-core servers, making optimal use [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Tools 
Tags: Forensics, network discovery, Network Monitoring, open source, XPLICO 
51 Comments » 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 27th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A leading security researcher has warned that Google risks repeating Apple’s mistakes on security with its new Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS is a Linux-based operating system designed to work exclusively with web applications. Chrome netbooks running the new OS will be available from Google’s partners Samsung and Acer from June. In a launch announcement, [...]
May 3rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The new version of OpenBSD 4.9 has been released not at the traditional day as we used to 1st May but after 2 days. Today the Open source operating system development team OpenBSD announced new release OpenBSD 4.9, this new version support the latest 64-bit processors. One of the main innovations of version 4.9 is [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Operating System Tags: open source, OpenBSD, OpenBSD4.9, Operating System 48 Comments » April 17th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today all operating systems require a special new hardware that may eliminate your old computer from being used. I don’t like the idea to ignore a computer that lived for more than 5 years because new operating system and application needs to have modern hardware. Many educational institute, public enterprises or ministries do not have [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Operating System Tags: Linux, Lubuntu, open source, Operating System, Xubuntu 31 Comments » 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 » January 20th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua At Black Hat DC 2011 Ralf-Philipp Weinmann a security researcher that discovered a new way for hacking GSM baseband systems. Attack scenarios against smartphones have concentrated on vulnerable software executed on the application processor. The idea of hacking these systems has been ignored because the operating systems running on these processors are getting hardened by [...]
Posted in hacking, Open-Source, Software Security, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: 3G, Black Hat, Cellphones, GSM, iPhones 11 Comments »
