September 18th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft rolls out their new OS after every three years. Windows 7 was launched in the year 2010, so it is said that Windows 8 would be rolled out in 2013. Bill Gates in his blog states that, “We have already completed almost half of the part for Windows 8, we are looking forward to [...]
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 » March 6th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft is preparing for a relatively modest Patch Tuesday with only three security bulletins. Among the three there are only one rated “critical”, while the other two are “important”. The critical bulletin, as well as one of the bulletins classified as important, affects Microsoft Windows. The other bulletin affects Microsoft Office. “The upcoming Patch Tuesday [...]
Posted in Operating System, Software Security, Vulnerabilities Tags: Operating System, patches, Windows & Microsoft 11 Comments » November 28th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Mandriva has released new USB-drive Mandriva Flash 2010, this version of OS will be out in the market by the mid of December. The USB stick have 8GB of storage, 6 GB users can store documents and files while the OS will take 2GB. According to Mandriva the release can fit perfectly with people that [...]
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 21st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua In some cases we fail to find the real information regarding a host on the network. NMAP can be a good scanner but it also can fail to give us the real OS version. Passive fingerprinting is another good way but now a day changing the OS fingerprint is very common by network/system administrators,To solve [...]
Posted in Fingerprinting, Operating System Tags: Operating System, OS Detection, Telnet Fingerprinting 10 Comments »
