May 30th, 2010 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua There is no single ideal system in the world, and this applies to Web application firewalls too (WAF’s). While the advantages and positive features far outweigh the negative in WAF’s, one major problem is there are only a few action rules allowed. The white list is expanding, and requires more development efforts because it is [...]
May 23rd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua When we hear the term firewall, most people think of the network filtering solution. But have you heard about the web application firewall (WAF)? Web applications have some serious vulnerabilities, and WAF provides a very important extra protection layer to the web solution. Hackers can find access points through errors in code, and we find [...]
May 19th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua McAfee has issued the regular quarterly Threat report, which pointed to major network threats in the first quarter of this year, during this period the biggest threat to computers was USB malicious software. Attackers continue to enjoy the ability to launch applications automatically from external devices. The report also stated the increasing of fake AV [...]
May 18th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A New update for Symantec Antivirus released by this weekend detects the popular game World of Warcraft as a malicious application. Instead of playing users were forced to post their issue on the game forum with a description that Symantec AntiVirus takes scan.dll.new as a Trojan for stealing user’s data. A number of posts revealed [...]
May 17th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Google intends to offer this week encryption to their search engine services; this is according to a new blog post. “Earlier this year, we encrypted Gmail for all our users, and next week we will start offering an encrypted version of Google Search. For other services users can check that pages are encrypted by looking [...]
May 9th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There are several method for recovering email password locally, you can search the configuration file manually or using different applications but in most cases the password is encrypted which can make it hard to decrypt. Some password recovery applications do not work with the antiviruses such as Openpass ,Passview or Recover. Here is a good [...]
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