Mobile malware on the rise, another case has been detected by Trend Micro Lab that targets Android smartphones. Attackers used Temple Run a widely used game application to spread and attract users to their malicious software. The most interesting is that the application is available on Android Market which is a kind of virtual supermarket [...]
Archive for the ‘Vulnerabilities & attacks’ Category
Passware Kit 11.3 Tool to crack Apple FileVault Encryption
February 3rd, 2012
Mourad Ben Lakhoua After introducing the first tool to crack Microsoft bitlocker encryption Passware company have created a new version that help user to have a full access to Mac FileVault disk encryption in a few minutes. Mac OS X has a strong utility integrated that any person can use to encrypt files with a strong encryption key [...]
Windows 8 The Art of Bootkit
January 30th, 2012
Mourad Ben Lakhoua At MalCon security conference in Mumbai, Peter Kleissner demonstrated how to install bootkit on the next Microsoft operating system Windows 8. The exploit can bypass the new security measures implemented on Windows 8 to load directly in the memory to provide attacker root privilege to the system. “Windows 8 Bootkit and Art of Bootkit Development” [...]
Several Zero-Days on Latest WordPress CMS
January 26th, 2012
Mourad Ben Lakhoua WordPress CMS is now open to several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to conduct SQL injection and run a malicious javascript on visitor’s machine over a cross site scripting bug. Actually the bug exist during the installation process so in order to take control on the remote webserver there are condition required which an incomplete [...]
New zero-day Joomla exploit in the wide
January 19th, 2012
Mourad Ben Lakhoua New SQL injection exploit have been published targeting Joomla CMS, the Red Security TEAM have made the exploit available and allow to have database name or check all tables name also you can have the database users login and different user passwords. The vulnerability exists in the discussion component of Joomla (com_discussions) that exist by [...]
Oracle Releases 78 Security Patches
January 18th, 2012
Mourad Ben Lakhoua New security patches have been released by oracle for several products to fix 78 vlnerabilities with different systems, affected applications include Oracle Database Server, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite ,Oracle PeopleSoft Products, Oracle JD Edwards Products ,Oracle Sun Products Suite, Oracle Virtualization and Oracle MySQL. By looking at number [...]
Adobe fixes two exploited vulnerabilities
December 19th, 2011
Mourad Ben Lakhoua If you are using Adobe product than there is new update that are going to fix two vulnerabilities can be used by attacker to control windows based system remotely. According to Symantec this bug has been exploited since the first of December by sending malicious PDF to infect users and steal sensitive information from unpatched [...]



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