January 22nd, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued a warning on Tuesday, and updated it yesterday, regarding the Downadup worm that has infected over 10 million computers so far. They said Microsoft’s original proposed fix does not address all versions of the Windows operating system. The Downadup worm creates an “autorun.inf” file on every [...]
January 17th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Most PC owners nowadays know that it is not a good idea to connect a Windows computer to the Internet before you have installed current anti-virus software. But not even the best anti-virus program can catch every virus, and complete scans of an entire system take a lot of processor power and can bring already-sluggish [...]
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Tags: Anti-virus, Cloud computing, Internet, New Tech, Science & Technology, Security 
No Comments » January 15th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua It would make ‘one big badass botnet,’ says Finnish security company The computer worm that exploits a months-old Windows bug has infected more than a million PCs in the past 24 hours, a security company said today. Early Wednesday, Helsinki, Finland-based security firm F-Secure Corp. estimated that 3.5 million PCs have been compromised by the [...]
January 14th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua In 2009, expect a strong focus on IT management initiatives that deliver measurable cost savings in a tight economy; the continued deployment of technologies that enable IT to be managed as a business; and new management challenges introduced by the growth of emerging technologies. “While there are obvious concerns surrounding the global economy, we expect [...]
January 13th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua This document is meant to provide web application developers, browser engineers, and information security researchers with a one-stop reference to key security properties of contemporary web browsers. Insufficient understanding of these often poorly-documented characteristics is a major contributing factor to the prevalence of several classes of security vulnerabilities. Although all browsers implement roughly the same [...]
