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 » 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 » January 17th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua SSH is a perfect security alternative to Telnet and has been used by system administrators and IT managers to configure and implement servers and network devices, here I wanted to list manual on Secure Shell usage. First let’s start by choosing SSH client here we will find no problem because generally there are two accepted [...]
April 22nd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Security Experts at sans warns IT Managers from a new type of SSH attack that can lead to compromise the server and open an administrator session on it. The Sans researchers warns of brute force-attack with objective to find usernames and passwords on the targeted servers. According to Daniel Wesemann at SANS Internet Storm Center [...]
