February 27th, 2010 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Malicious software pieces like viruses, worms and bots are currently one of the largest threats to the security of the Internet. Antivirus Labs have invested great Money for analyzing and reversing viruses, but for our case we can perform the analysis using some useful tools on our PC. Let’s start with www.virustotal.com , if I [...]
February 23rd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Ensuring security of the modern computer network with a large number of system and devices consumes a big effort. Keeping track all new gaps becomes more and more difficult.Here I wanted to present a very good Infosec source. Security-Database.com is an online computer security portal .provide free comprehensive and complete information about product vulnerabilities and [...]
Posted in Pentesting, Vulnerabilities 
Tags: IT RISK, SECURITY DATABASE, Software Security, Vulnerability management 
9 Comments » February 18th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Over the past 1,5 year more than 75 thousands machine worldwide have been infected by Zeus Trojan this is according to NetWitnes Company, all these infected computers were used to thief Banking account, Social Networking and email passwords. Among the victims we can find some of the major companies like Merck, Cardinal Health, Paramount Pictures [...]
February 16th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A New case has been observed by Symantec about sailing a fake antivirus product with real time technical support to victims. After installing the fake antivirus software popup windows open to alert victims about detecting malware with an unusual yellow button on the screen leads to an online support. After clicking on the Support Online [...]
February 9th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Adobe Company has officially apologized for the flash player 16 month old vulnerability that is still not fixed. According to Adobe the bug has been eliminated in the beta flash player 10.1, but there still not yet a stable version for this release. The bug officially was reported on the 22nd of September 2008 and [...]
February 8th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Criminals are conducting spam attacks on email addresses related to .gov and .mil domain name. According to Brian Krebs Blog post the fake messages includes a link leads to a Trojan Zeus which helps to steal Banking system passwords. The reason of success of such attacks that the phishing message looks quit legitimate, Recipients are [...]
February 5th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft announce that they are about to release a 13 security updates on next Tuesday, these new security patches are issued to fix 26 security vulnerabilities in windows operating system and Microsoft office suite. According to the Advanced Notification five updates are critical and the 8 others are important. While we can find 11 of [...]
Posted in Operating System, Software Security, Vulnerabilities Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Office, patches, Security 6 Comments »
