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 » April 3rd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today we can find a different Linux distribution for protecting the network infrastructure. Most of them are based on the opensource software and provide a solid protection against viruses, network attacks and even spam filtering. But selecting perfect solution can take more time than to implement it. so this post comes to provide a clear [...]
Posted in Network security Tags: Endian, Firewall, hardware, Linux, Network security, opensource, Security, Software 12 Comments » September 1st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New service allows users to download and install any Linux operating system directly from Internet. Netboot.me is a website that provides a bootable image and burns it to a CD, USB memory stick, or floppy disk that displays a menu with the distribution list and some useful tools for system diagnostics, partition and recovery. Basically [...]
Posted in Internet, Operating System, Webcasts Tags: Linux, opensource, Operating System 4 Comments » August 14th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A critical update has been released for the open source operating system Linux. Researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in the kernel that makes all recent versions in the last eight years affected (2.4 and 2.6 kernels). Julien Tinnes writes on his blog that: The issue lies in how Linux deals with unavailable operations for [...]
Posted in News, Operating System, Vulnerabilities Tags: Kernel, Linux, open source, Vulnerability 3 Comments » June 22nd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Robert Hansen, a guru in the field of security, has released a new tool for DoS-attacks, exposing serious Web server’s vulnerabilities including Apache and other servers. Hansen called his tool Slowloris , the most interesting in this utility that it can cause a DoS attack without using a huge amount of traffic as we usually [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking Tags: Apache, Attacks, Ethical Hacking, Linux, Security No Comments » May 5th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The new version of OpenBSD 4.5 has been released just in time at the traditional day as we used to 1st May. The OpenBSD 4.5 includes new version of OpenSSH – 5.2 and two new tools ypldap-YP-server for Ldap and xcompmgr for xenocara and among the software packages you can find (GNOME 2.24.3, GNUstep 1.18.0, [...]
Posted in Operating System Tags: Linux, open source, OpenBSD, Operating Systems, Security No Comments » March 11th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Damn Vulnerable Linux is another interesting platform for pen testing and vulnerability assessment, it is created for training purposes to IT-Security professional during a university lessons by the IITAC (International Institute for Training, Assessment, and Certification) and secure software Engineering in cooperation with the French Reverse Engineering Team. It is freely available for download here: [...]
Posted in Pentesting Tags: Ethical Hacking, Linux, Live CD, Pentest, Security, Vulnerabilities Assessment No Comments »
