December 27th, 2010 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft started to develop a new patch for a 0-day in all supported versions of Internet Explorer. The main impact of the vulnerability is remote code execution. The new Microsoft security advisory 2488013 alert users that the vulnerability exists due to the creation of uninitialized memory during a CSS function within Internet Explorer. As a [...]
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 [...]
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Tags: Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Security 
11 Comments » October 4th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua It has been now Nine weeks since Moxie Marlinspike demonstrated the “new” way of attacking SSL at the Black Hat security conference by the help of his tool, called SSLstrip he was able to make a man-in-the-middle attack on normal, insecure http traffic and replaces links to secure https pages with normal http, so after [...]
Posted in News, Vulnerabilities & attacks, Web Security Tags: Firefox, Google chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, SSL 12 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 [...]
