March 6th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft is preparing for a relatively modest Patch Tuesday with only three security bulletins. Among the three there are only one rated “critical”, while the other two are “important”. The critical bulletin, as well as one of the bulletins classified as important, affects Microsoft Windows. The other bulletin affects Microsoft Office. “The upcoming Patch Tuesday [...]
Posted in Operating System, Software Security, Vulnerabilities 
Tags: Operating System, patches, Windows & Microsoft 
11 Comments » December 14th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua We already shared the PowerShell security policies and protection measures that are used by Microsoft, as a reminder there are 4 levels of execution policies that can help in securing different script execution. Now that post has been mostly focused on system security administrator benefit but what about hackers, do they have benefits for PowerShell [...]
Posted in Operating System, Pentesting, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: DefCon, DefCon18, Metasploit, Pentesting, PowerShell 11 Comments » November 27th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua System administrators are faced with a lot of challenges and many different tasks, running across the company or from floor to another will not help in solving these tasks but it will make them more complicated. Now if your infrastructure is based on windows environment using remote desktop is not a good idea, you may [...]
November 24th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today using online resources with a vulnerable system can make you exposed for new malwares and attacks, windows or any other operating system provides the daily automatic update for the OS component but not to all browser plugins and programs. Your browser may be insecure for multiple reasons. It may contain a software issue that [...]
Posted in Operating System, Safety rules, Software Security, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Client-Side Security, Panda ActiveScan 2.0, Plugin Check for Mozilla, Qualys BrowserCheck, Secunia Online Software Inspector (OSI), Vulnerabilities & attacks, Vulnerability management, Vulnerability Research 11 Comments » November 24th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua One month ago vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which could be exploited by local attackers to take complete control of a vulnerable system. This bug caused by an access validation error in the Task Scheduler service that fails to prevent users from manipulating certain fields in schema XML files via the Component Object [...]
November 3rd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Fedora development community announced the official release of Fedora 14, the new version of one of the most popular Linux-distributions, sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the community, – Fedora 14, codenamed Laughlin. This release is a bit light on user-facing changes, but adds some useful features for developers. Some of the key [...]
October 9th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Qubes OS is a new operating system aims provide more safety measures to users; the idea behind this operating system is to protect users against new malware as it builds a Security Isolation technique based on the virtualization. To understand methods to secure OS Level there is three categories: 1) Security by Correctness (secure coding). [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Operating System Tags: Linux, opensource, Qubes OS, Security, Virtualization 12 Comments »
