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 [...]
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Secunia PSI makes your patches a piece of cake
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 [...]
Microsoft About to Fix 22 Flaws on Next Patch Tuesday
August 5th, 2011
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft about to release on 9th of August a larger scale software update with 13 patches that will fix 22 vulnerabilities. Two of the 13 bulletins for this month’s Patch Tuesday were rated “critical” by Microsoft, the highest threat ranking in its four-step system. Nine were pegged “important” and the remaining pair were labeled “moderate.” [...]
McAfee AV Patch Leaves Some Computers Unbootable
June 10th, 2009
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Oopsy-daisy! According to complaints on McAfee’s message board, a mandatory service pack for the company’s antivirus VSE 8.7 software has left some machines unbootable. The update, which was issued on May 27 and later pulled on June 2, was intended to squash minor security bugs, but also inadvertently flagged some Windows system files as malware. [...]
Honeynet Project Discovered a hole in Conficker
March 31st, 2009
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researchers at The Honeynet Project has discovered a vulnerability in the Conficker that makes it easy to detect,The Conficker adds changes in Windows that can be detected remotely by using a various scanning methods which is already integrated into different popular scanning tools. Members of the Honeynet Project founded that conficker infected host’s respond with [...]



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