September 30th, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua A new post has been released yesterday providing a script to exploit a critical vulnerability in windows, the vulnerability has been discovered since the 7th of September. Up to this Monday the vulnerability can lead only to a failure in the system but now and after Stephen Fewer from Metasploit issued this script publicly it [...]
Posted in Pentesting, Vulnerabilities & attacks 
Tags: Exploit, Metasploit, Microsoft, Security, Vulnerability Research 
6 Comments » September 27th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Any security professional has his own way in conducting a penetration testing mission but the whole plan and method for performing the pentest should be in accordance with the security standards recommendations and regulations. The first thing is to start with defining a framework for the several part of pentest this will involve obtaining comprehensive [...]
Posted in Pentesting Tags: Commview, Ethical Hacking, Network Penetration Testing, Wireshark 13 Comments » September 26th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A New test has been conducted by Computerworld researchers concluded that Chrome Frame plug-in improves JavaScript performance 9.6 times in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). During the test it was used Sunspider Javascript for three times to show the speed improvement in Microsoft Internet browser. This plug-in is already embedded in Google chrome while on last [...]
September 23rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft has released an announcement that the free anti-virus package Security Essentials is now reached the final phase. Microsoft Security Essentials will have the basic requirements for competition among some major security software companies like Symantec and McAfee with a low price AV solution. The new product is designed to protect computers with Windows XP, [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, News Tags: Anti-virus, Microsoft, Microsoft-Security-Essentials 12 Comments » September 21st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua USB Switchblade is a tool that can help you to be a king on the enemies’ land. Hack5 USB Switchblade is the second name for this tool but this does not change anything. The project consists of several software packages that do a great job for password grabbing and pentesting: Dump SAM is made for [...]
September 17th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A New utility has been released by Microsoft designed to enhance the application security. Microsoft Minifuzz is a fuzzing tool that allows users to identify software vulnerability by injecting a random data in the tested application. According to the secure development Lifecycle (SDL), MiniFuzz is a simple file fuzzer that helps to assist developers to [...]
Posted in News, Software Security, Vulnerabilities Tags: Microsoft, Security, Security Development, verification tools 8 Comments » September 16th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua TippingPoint and Qualys two security companies have been involved in a study named “The Top Cyber Security Risks” revealed that more than half of all cyber attacks are targeting applications and websites. This report is based on information collected from March to August 2009 from customers that are using the Intrusion prevention system and network [...]
Posted in Internet, News, Operating System, Vulnerabilities, Web Security Tags: Risk, SANS, Security, Vulnerability Research, Zero-day 7 Comments »
