August 31st, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Apache Software Foundation website was down last Friday after hackers compromised SSH key to one of their main servers. Secure Shell is a very popular technology that can provides a secure servers remote administration, well if the hackers manage to upload a rootkit or Trojan over the download package of apache website, this can cause [...]
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Tags: Apache, Apache.org, Secure Shell, SSH Hacking, Webserver 
5 Comments » August 30th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researcher at the University of Hiroshima in Japan reported that they were able to develop a new method to crack wireless AP that uses WPA algorithm. The new method can take only 60 seconds to break Wi-Fi encryption. Toshihiro Ohigashi and Masakatu Morii planned a conference on the 25th of September to provide the technical [...]
August 27th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Google has released a number of patches fixing vulnerabilities in Google chrome browser, the impact of these vulnerabilities can allow an attacker to remotely run arbitrary code over the victim’s computer. Among the vulnerabilities that have been fixed in the version Chrome 2.0.172.43, there are two vulnerabilities with a high severity level and one with [...]
Posted in News, Vulnerabilities, Web Security Tags: Browsers, Chrome, Google, Vulnerability 2 Comments » August 26th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Opera Software Company has released the Opera 10 web browser candidate version, the full version of this release will be ready by the 1st of September 2009. Compared to the recent one the tenth version has a significant new interface design with 40% improvement in the navigation speed. Among the changes a new visual tabs [...]
August 24th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Pidgin users and some alternative IM applications are invited to update their Instant messaging solution this is after CORE security announced the discovery of a serious vulnerability in the IM code source. The list of IM vulnerable includes Pidgin,Finch,Adium,Meebo and Gaim. In which Libpurple library is used. Libpurple is designed to provide simultaneous support for [...]
Posted in News, Vulnerabilities Tags: Instant Messaging, Pidgin, Security, Vulnerability 2 Comments » August 24th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua VMware has released new security advisory VMSA-2009-0010, in this advisory there is updates for the VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE and a pending updates for VMware Server 1.X and 2.X. According to the Security advisory descriptions there were discovered in the way third party library libpng handled uninitialized pointers. An attacker could create a [...]
August 21st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Cisco has released a new update designed to patch vulnerabilities in their network devices. According to Cisco this hole can allow an attacker to create a denial of service on the routers and switches. This vulnerability particularly concerns the Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) for Cisco catalyst 6500 and Cisco router 7600 series. The vulnerability [...]
