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 [...]
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No Comments » January 6th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua 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 [...]
Posted in Software Security, Vulnerabilities Tags: patch, patches, Windows & Microsoft, Windows 7 No Comments » 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 » June 3rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Cisco has released security advisories for four products to address multiple vulnerabilities. These products include Cisco Unified IP phones, Cisco Network Registrar, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, and Cisco Media Experience. Exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, operate with escalated privileges, or gain administrative access. Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco Unified [...]
March 6th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft is preparing for a relatively modest Patch Tuesday with only three security bulletins. Among the three there are only one rated “critical”, while the other two are “important”. The critical bulletin, as well as one of the bulletins classified as important, affects Microsoft Windows. The other bulletin affects Microsoft Office. “The upcoming Patch Tuesday [...]
Posted in Operating System, Software Security, Vulnerabilities Tags: Operating System, patches, Windows & Microsoft 11 Comments » September 15th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today Microsoft released new patches for different windows operating system among the vulnerabilities fixed one that may be exploited by Stuxnet. Stuxnet is a combination of rootkit, worm and Trojan that is spreading through removable drives using the Microsoft Windows Shortcut ‘LNK’ Files Automatic File Execution Vulnerability , at a previous case Siemens AG alerted [...]
April 12th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A new tool has been introduced by Microsoft for analyzing Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 security level. Security Compliance Manager is the name of this tool which is designed to simplify protection standard usage and security requirement at the IT environment. Security Compliance Manager provides a single application to automate system management configuration and [...]
Posted in Operating System, Software Security, Tools Tags: Microsoft, patches, Security Compliance Manager, Windows7 11 Comments »
