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 » 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 13th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Integrated security component on windows operating system are not enough this what has been indicated by many security professional. Windows firewall and other security functionality do not provide the required level of protection. For effectively protecting windows system we need to install third party software application such as Kerio WinRoute Firewal or WatchGuard Firewall with [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Software Security, Tools Tags: HAVP, OpenBSD, opensource, Security, squidGuard, VirtualBox, Virtualization 11 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 » January 11th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua After approximately one year since the first beta version of BackTrack 4 has been released, today the Team has made the BackTrack 4 Final Release available for download. The Beta version was firstly introduced on February 2009 and we already listed the new features on SecTechno. BackTrack is an excellent collection of security tools for [...]
October 4th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Bug is a word that means an error in a certain program, usually Bugs are located and removed in the program testing or debugging phase. Globally there is a big number of testing labs that are on a daily bases looking for discovering new Bugs and alerting on them, here I wanted to mention this [...]
Posted in Search Engine, Software Security, Vulnerabilities Tags: Bugspy, opensource, Security, Vulnerability 11 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 [...]
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