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 [...]
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Tags: Linux, Lubuntu, open source, Operating System, Xubuntu 
32 Comments » November 3rd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Fedora development community announced the official release of Fedora 14, the new version of one of the most popular Linux-distributions, sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the community, – Fedora 14, codenamed Laughlin. This release is a bit light on user-facing changes, but adds some useful features for developers. Some of the key [...]
October 9th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Qubes OS is a new operating system aims provide more safety measures to users; the idea behind this operating system is to protect users against new malware as it builds a Security Isolation technique based on the virtualization. To understand methods to secure OS Level there is three categories: 1) Security by Correctness (secure coding). [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Operating System Tags: Linux, opensource, Qubes OS, Security, Virtualization 11 Comments » September 16th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On 2007 vulnerability has been discovered in 64-bit Linux kernel system that allowed a local user to gain root privileges using unsafe broadcast 32-bit calls on all Linux kernel. This bug was fixed after a while. Ben Hawkes is the researcher who firstly discovered this problem and has made a small modification in the same [...]
July 5th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua System monitoring is the most important method for detecting all kinds of Trojans, viruses and any malicious activities on the system. Maintaining control over file integrity can be acheived by installing a tripewire which has the ability to detect changes on each system on which it is installed, checks the integrity of normal binaries and [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Open-Source, Operating System, Safety rules, Software Security Tags: Best Practices, Computer Safety, Linux, Security, UNIX 11 Comments » June 27th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Protecting your systems against all manner of intrusions will provide more safety for your virtual life, by using complex passwords and a regular file check against changes, plus restricting anything and everything will keep these threats away. Computersremain the easiest point to compromise if there is a physical access. At schools, universities, cafes or the [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Open-Source, Safety rules Tags: Best Practices, Computer Safety, Linux, Security 10 Comments » April 10th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua These days there are a great variety of security software designed to organize and manage global networks. Protecting internal resources from external threats, monitoring the network and blocking certain suspicious services is as a priority for any IT security professional. One available solution is Smothwall. Smothwall is a free, open source, customized distribution that includes [...]
Posted in Network security, Software Security Tags: Firewall, hardware, IPCop, Linux, Network security, open source, Security, Smoothwall, UTM, Vyatta 12 Comments »
