January 30th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Dave (ReL1K) Kennedy author of The Social-Engineering Toolkit (SET) have released last December another interesting tool written in python that helps to protect *nix based system with a combination of honeypot , monitoring and prevention systems. Honeypot is a good way to trick attacker by simulating a vulnerable system to attract hacker or a malicious [...]
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Tags: Artillery, brute force, Dave (ReL1K) Kennedy, Honeypot, open source, Security, SET, Social Engineering Toolkit, SSH, Tools 
No Comments » July 30th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New vulnerability has been discovered in Elgg an open-source application that helps to create social networking engine, delivering the building blocks that enable businesses, schools, universities and associations to create their own fully-featured social networks and applications. Well-known Organizations with networks powered by Elgg include: Australian Government, British Government, Federal Canadian Government, MITRE, The World [...]
Posted in Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks, Web Security Tags: Elgg, open source, Vulnerability, XSS, XSS Vulnerability 3 Comments » June 23rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua I have previously posted on Infosec Institute an article about Classifying Malware with ClamAV and YARA, the article is focused on using open source tools under Linux system to create descriptions of malware families based on textual or binary patterns contained in samples from those families and to quickly identify known malware. Two days ago [...]
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 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 32 Comments »
