January 20th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Keeping your system updated is very important to avoid new malwares and to fix vulnerabilities that allow a malicious user have a full control on your system, well I used to enable the automatic update on all Microsoft based systems as we have monthly the patch Tuesday tradition. Now this seems to be not enough [...]
January 12th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There is several ways to encrypt your files, this week we posted about Vanishcrypt useful tool that can help to create a virtual encrypted storage on your local system, some people prefer to encrypt just a single file, so you don’t need to create a storage but you have a document that you want to [...]
Posted in Encryption, InfoSec, Open-Source, Software Security, Tools 
Tags: AES, Authentication/Encryption, AxCrypt, Encrypted Files 
No Comments » January 11th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Windows operating system runs many processes that may include unknown services or viruses, one of the strange processes is svchost.exe, sometimes you find several processes under this name and you need to understand what they are doing. They consume a lot of memory footprint and if you kill them all it will not solve the [...]
January 6th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft issued an advance notification for their next patch Tuesday which include seven bulletins that affect all operating systems and Microsoft Developer Tools. Vulnerabilities Severity Rating are critical to important and most of them require restart of the operating system. The critical one allow an attacker to run a remote code execution on windows media [...]
Posted in Software Security, Vulnerabilities Tags: patch, patches, Windows & Microsoft, Windows 7 No Comments » December 27th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Vulnerabilities exists in all platforms and systems, if you are using any application you need to have the latest version to be sure that there is no bug risks working with it. If we are talking about security than this may affect the availability of this application so any vulnerability can crash , confidentiality of [...]
November 15th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua We all know that patch management is an essential task to keep our network safe. There are various approaches to running a patch management process. Windows allows an administrator to set the auto-update system to automatically install patches when these are made available by Microsoft. While having a patch management system that automatically deploys patches [...]
October 6th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft about to release a new update to fix 23 vulnerabilities on different MS products, this update going to fix several critical vulnerabilities in windows operating system, Internet Explorer, Silverlight and .NET framework. According to the advance notification we find a patch to Microsoft Forefront UAG a security solution that delivers secure remote access to [...]
Posted in Software Security, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Microsoft, patches, patching, Windows & Microsoft No Comments »
