March 28th, 2010 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua At the annual international conference CanSecWest in Vancouver, ANSSI The French Network and Information Security Agency members demonstrated how an intruder can gain a complete control over a system remotely. Speakers explained how an attacker may use certain vulnerability in the network devices to execute arbitrary commands on the victim machine. The presentation called: “Can [...]
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11 Comments » March 26th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New malware has been observed by Vietnamese computer security company Bach Khoa, The Malicious software overwrites programs update to bypass antivirus software. W32.Fakeupver.trojan is the name of this new Trojan, first what the malware do is replacing automatic update system process for Adobe, Java, Deep Freeze or even Windows operating system to trick AntiMalware. By [...]
March 26th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua 2010 will be remarkable year with many Interesting events, conferences and Underground Security meetings. I tried to list some of the well known security meeting, if you are looking not to miss these events it’s time to start making your plans. So this is what I have so far; Hack In The Box (19 to [...]
Posted in Security events Tags: BlackHat, Conferece, DefCon, Hack In The Box, hackers, Notacon, Security 11 Comments » March 26th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Secunia Danish computer security service provider announced the final version of the Secunia Corporate Software Inspector 4.0 (CSI 4.0). This tool may identify vulnerabilities for about 13 000 applications from 2300 developers. CSI 4.0 has a free trial version which can be downloaded from the official website. And brings CSI 4.0 with Microsoft server operating [...]
March 17th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Core Security Technologies (CST) has discovered a critical vulnerability in windows virtual PC allows an attacker to bypass security measures and run a malicious code on the guest machine. the concerned platform for this vulnerability is Virtual PC 2007, Virtual PC 2007 SP1, Windows Virtual PC, Virtual Server 2005 and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. [...]
Posted in News, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: 0-day, Microsoft, Virtual PC, Vulnerabilities & attacks 12 Comments » March 7th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today’s Malware Strategy and Tactics are advanced and sophisticated. The main purpose for that is to trick antiviruses. Some are using encryption to make the detection difficult for any security software product, other add an AutoRuns to the registry entries to defend itself against anti-malware software or just adding a line to the host file [...]
