July 15th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to Avast Security Company 6 out of 10 Adobe reader users are having a vulnerable version. This because many people think that by enabling automated update on the operating system they are secures. Adobe application is one of the favorite targets for hackers as attacking vulnerable version can lead to compromise all the system [...]
May 3rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua ‘Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure’ is a new document published by the National Security Agency, this document comes to help and provide simple users a path for keeping their system secure and protected. Home users are faced by many security troubles, applying all required security measures are complicated due to the fast [...]
February 15th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua GlobalSCAPE announced a new security application called appShield, a product for securing home users and SMB’s. AppShield is based on proven technology from CoreTrace Corporation, which creates a whitelist. That’s mean not as other security applications that use the blackist to block any suspicios applications. The whitelist includes all approved applications that user will allow [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Software Security, Tools 
Tags: Anti-Malwares, Software Security 
8 Comments » January 9th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sometime you open a webpage or an infected file and the antivirus still silent, without alerting about any suspicious activity on your machine, this is maybe due to not having the latest AV signature or that the malware are encrypted to make the AV not recognize it or that the file is clean and do [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Browser Tags: Antiviruses, Malicious Web Site, Security, Software Security, VirusTotal, Web Security 13 Comments » September 25th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua In recent years malicious website threats are increasing dramatically, this is due to the increasing number of online active users and web resources. Web-based attacks are growing, most Malware like TDSS, Zeus are spreading over the Internet. This is only what we know about cybercrime. Attacker’s main purposes are to urge victims to download and [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Best Practices, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: cybersecurity, Software Security, TDSS, Zeus 9 Comments » February 23rd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Ensuring security of the modern computer network with a large number of system and devices consumes a big effort. Keeping track all new gaps becomes more and more difficult.Here I wanted to present a very good Infosec source. Security-Database.com is an online computer security portal .provide free comprehensive and complete information about product vulnerabilities and [...]
Posted in Pentesting, Vulnerabilities Tags: IT RISK, SECURITY DATABASE, Software Security, Vulnerability management 9 Comments » February 27th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researchers from NC State have developed a new approach to discover the risk assessment in software security and ensure the application development safety. This new system is called Protection poker and designed to help developers to determine the possible location of vulnerability in the code source even before its deployment. According to this technique the [...]
