October 11th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Italian security researcher recently revealed details of several vulnerabilities in the system supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) from multiple vendors. Luigi Auriemma has released details and proof of concept code for 6 vulnerabilities affecting popular SCADA systems. Most of the vulnerabilities allow remote code execution, many of them are easy to use,” – says [...]
April 3rd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today we can find a different Linux distribution for protecting the network infrastructure. Most of them are based on the opensource software and provide a solid protection against viruses, network attacks and even spam filtering. But selecting perfect solution can take more time than to implement it. so this post comes to provide a clear [...]
Posted in Network security 
Tags: Endian, Firewall, hardware, Linux, Network security, opensource, Security, Software 
12 Comments » November 28th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On Thursday at 9:32 London Stock Exchange (LSE) one of the largest stock exchanges in the world has experienced a failure for more than three hours. This failure has resulted a lost of more than 5 percentage points to 62.85 percent of FTSE 100 stocks. The problem gave investors a negative impression of the current [...]
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. [...]
May 31st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Yesterday while I was looking at the Blog state I have noticed that some visitors were coming from a certain site called Bing.com. I started to search about it, after some search using Google I found some adds on the net talking about the new Microsoft search engine Bing. The name seemed to me nice [...]
Posted in News Tags: Bing, Emerging Technology, Google, Internet, Microsoft, SaaS & Cloud Computing, Software No Comments »
