January 9th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sometime you open a webpage or an infected file and the antivirus still silent, without alerting about any suspicious activity on your machine, this is maybe due to not having the latest AV signature or that the malware are encrypted to make the AV not recognize it or that the file is clean and do [...]
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Tags: Antiviruses, Malicious Web Site, Security, Software Security, VirusTotal, Web Security 
13 Comments » November 3rd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft has fixed a new vulnerability (CVE-2010-3962) in all Internet explorer versions except Internet Explorer 9 Beta. The bug could Allow Remote Code Execution on victim machines. About this vulnerability Symantec stated that by visiting an infected website a Backdoor.Pirpi may be executed and runs in the background of the operating system .The backdoor can [...]
Posted in Browser, Software Security, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Security 11 Comments » October 20th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Final version of Google Chrome has been issued with the support of HTML5 and site blocking improvement. The Seventh version of Google chrome introduced new innovations and fixes hundreds of vulnerabilities. 11 security vulnerabilities in the WebKit-based browser, one critical and five high-risk issues. Google says that the critical issue can cause the browser to [...]
July 15th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Mozilla has blocklisted a malicious plugin that has been submitted on their official website as an add-on since 6th of June, the add-on named Mozilla Sniffer and contains a serious security vulnerability. According to a blog post the plugin includes a code that intercepts all login data on any website and sends this credential to [...]
Posted in Browser, Software Security, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Add-on, CoolPreviews, Mozilla, Mozilla Sniffer 11 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 [...]
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 [...]
