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 [...]
December 13th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is vulnerable to new attack where a hacker can reboot the smartphone remotely using a special SMS. Embedded devices are very attractive to hackers as they do not include standard security software and they accept remote instructions. The bug is not executed over SMS only but it is possible to run [...]
Posted in Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks 
Tags: Microsoft, SpyEye, Vulnerabilities & attacks, windows, Windows Phone 7, Zeus 
No Comments » November 23rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft going to release Windows 8 on next year with several new features, the new operating system can be purchased online with a simple installation that takes few minutes. Installation processes takes about 11 mouse clicks to make it as simple as possible and require 3GB of free hard disk space. Upgrading from previous windows [...]
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 » August 6th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A study that has been conducted by the AVAST Virus Lab has identified un-patched and pirated versions of Windows XP as the perfect target for rootkit infection. The study found that rootkits infecting via the MBR were responsible for over 62% all rootkit infections. Driver infection made up only 27% of infection. The clear leader [...]
Posted in Malwares, Software Security, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Avast, Malware, Malwares, Microsoft, Rootkit, WindowsXP 1 Comment » July 5th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft.com.br domain was hacked as hackers managed to point the domain name which belongs to Microsoft Brazil to another webserver owned by hackers that display the message “Ms Brazil 0wn3d by TG”
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking, hacking Tags: DNS Attack, DNS Poisoning, DNS spoofing, DNS vulnerability, hacking, Microsoft No Comments » July 4th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua False positives high number and complexity of signatures development can makes some intrusion detection and prevention systems useless. How many time you visit an organization especially small to medium business that do have a firewall includes IDS/IPS and the system manager are even not following logs. This can leave all system vulnerable as we have [...]
Posted in Software Security, Tools Tags: Microsoft, Network Inspection System (NIS), patch management, windows No Comments »
