May 27th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua A leading security researcher has warned that Google risks repeating Apple’s mistakes on security with its new Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS is a Linux-based operating system designed to work exclusively with web applications. Chrome netbooks running the new OS will be available from Google’s partners Samsung and Acer from June. In a launch announcement, [...]
December 5th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On this Tuesday we are going to have the regular monthly update by Microsoft the release will include a set of patches to fix 12 problem, we can find among the patches a fix to Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability. These releases are issued for windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, 2008 as [...]
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9 Comments » June 18th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Big number of fixes surprising, but no known malicious software for devices Apple Inc released 45 software patches on Wednesday to address rare security vulnerabilities in its popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices. The company released them as part of its widely anticipated iPhone 3.0 operating system. “This is a large cluster of patches [...]
Posted in Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: 45, flaws, iphone, ipod, Operating Systems, patches, Security, Update, Vulnerability 4 Comments » June 1st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua After more than three years since Symantec stopped the support and development of L0phtcrack the tool that provided a titanic opportunity for passwords auditing and recovery. Here comes yesterday the same team with the new version L0phtcrack 6. As the project rights being reacquired by the original authors from Symantec it was possible for them [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Password Security, Pentesting Tags: Authentication/Encryption, hacking, L0phtcrack 6, Operating Systems, Pentest, Security 1 Comment » May 27th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft has made the Windows Vista and 2008 Service Pack 2 available for download (32 bit and 64 bit). It is always recommended to download directly from the Microsoft’s official website to avoid any modified or an infected copies of software. If you do not download those update now they will be automatically applied later [...]
May 5th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The new version of OpenBSD 4.5 has been released just in time at the traditional day as we used to 1st May. The OpenBSD 4.5 includes new version of OpenSSH – 5.2 and two new tools ypldap-YP-server for Ldap and xcompmgr for xenocara and among the software packages you can find (GNOME 2.24.3, GNUstep 1.18.0, [...]
Posted in Operating System Tags: Linux, open source, OpenBSD, Operating Systems, Security No Comments » February 1st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua In the last months there has been a rapid increase in investment in the Cloud Computing and related areas. This growth is due to the demand for virtual “cloud” resources, the Idea of Cloud Computing is near another approach called utility computing, where computing resources are treated as a service and takes into account the [...]
