January 23rd, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Constant monitoring of your entire network components can help in detecting different problems at an early stage especially that today all machines are critical and can’t afford even minimal downtime. Redundancy will give you time to recover a failure before having angry users trying to knock down your door, but it doesn’t free us from [...]
Posted in Network security, Open-Source, Software Security 
Tags: Log Managemnt, Nagios, open source, OpenBSD, opensource 
12 Comments » June 22nd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua GNU Screen is one of the favored tools for system administrators and Unix-based users. It is very popular and many articles have been published about it in the most reputable magazines and journals. Now what makes this tool powerful? Why do so many users prefer it while so few people even know about it? Nowadays, [...]
Posted in Open-Source Tags: GNU Screen, open source, Secure Shell, SSH, System Management 11 Comments » April 26th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Ensuring security in modern computer networks with a large number of hosts and devices requires a great effort, and keeping track of all events and logs becoming more and more difficult. It is important to have a vulnerability management system to allow you maintain control over your network and solve any related problems. Generally, network [...]
Posted in Network security, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: open source, OSSIM, Risk Management, SIGVI 9 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 » 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 » May 5th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua CNET News recently met with His Excellency Eng. Bassem Al Rousan, minister of information and communications technology of Jordan, in his offices in Amman, to talk about outsourcing, DVD piracy, Internet taxes, open source, and other topics. Very interesting conversation you can find it here
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 »
