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 [...]
Posted in Encryption, Software Security, Tools 
Tags: Data security, Encryption, Tools, TrueCrypt 
11 Comments » July 23rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua This is a really nice report that sky news have made about the computer repairing shops, well if you are going to fix your computer at a third party shop, take off your hard disk and try as much as possible to properly encrypt any sensitive information on it. It’s very important to provide awareness [...]
Posted in News Tags: computer privacy, Data security, Forensics, pc repairs, sky news, Snooping 6 Comments » July 10th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The number of security breaches seen by companies during the last 12 months has risen, a new survey has shown. A study by the PGP Corporation showed that 70 per cent of IT businesses have been affected by at least one data breach security incident during the last year, a figure up from the 60 [...]
April 13th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There’s no debate over the fact that data breaches are sharply on the rise. In mid-March the chief enterprise risk officer for Visa, Ellen Richey, said that common sense dictates that a challenging economy will produce increased data theft activity – sales of stolen data remains an exceptionally vibrant business despite the downturn. Richey added [...]
