November 28th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Peer 2 peer is a widely used protocol that help in sharing and connecting nodes on internet, I think any person in the past used all sharing programs such as Bittorrent , kazaa or napster which allows to exchange files , data and more. Peer 2 peer is good way to share files but it [...]
November 18th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Protecting information from unauthorized access or destruction is very important. from the technical point of view this is possible using special security settings and applications, there is a very interesting solution called Secretdisk that do not use any encryption but it provide a way for controling access to hard disk by hiding it. this application [...]
November 16th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Data leakage is a problem that we face at any corporate environment, I remember a case at a Television where a team prepared an interview with a political person, this interview have been saved on the shared server and was planned to be displayed on next week. After this big work in montage and time [...]
November 10th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Some companies produce more documents than services or products. Business plans, contracts, RFPs and RFQs, financial data… it’s an endless list. Many are created and managed online via the corporate Intranet, but what happens when they need to be transferred or shared? Without an online document management system to protect the confidential data, how can [...]
July 14th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Encrypting files and data is a good way to assure their confidentiality, but this will not prevent a third party person from detecting the encrypted storage. Researcher at University of Southern California and Computer Sciences from NUST in Pakistan discovered an interesting way to secure data based on steganography techniques. Presented technique allow a person [...]
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 [...]
October 23rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua TrueCrypt one of the popular tools for encrypting and hiding partition under Linux, MacOS and Windows system has released a new version. The new features at this release include: • Full support for Windows 7. • Full support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. • The ability to configure selected volumes. TrueCrypt is an [...]
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Tags: Data security, Encryption, Tools, TrueCrypt 
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