May 4th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua AV-Test released the first quarter report for this year that is dedicated to evaluate 22 security products, the test has been performed on Windows 7 32-bit platform and looks for protection against 0-day malware attacks, the capacity of these software to block new malware using the dynamic detection and checking whether the security product able [...]
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Tags: Anti-Malwares, Anti-virus, AVG, BitDefender, F-Secure, G Data, Kaspersky, panda, Security Software, Symantec 
13 Comments » August 18th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Symantec researchers reported a new malicious application in the virtual store Android Market, this application can determine users location in real time on AndroidOS. Tapsnake is the name of the game which is a version of the popular game “Snake”. Game developers did not provide any information that the application sends each 15 minute victims [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, News, Software Security Tags: Android, Malware, Symantec, Tapsnake, Trojan 5 Comments » May 18th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A New update for Symantec Antivirus released by this weekend detects the popular game World of Warcraft as a malicious application. Instead of playing users were forced to post their issue on the game forum with a description that Symantec AntiVirus takes scan.dll.new as a Trojan for stealing user’s data. A number of posts revealed [...]
April 20th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to the latest Internet Security Threat Report which has been issued by Symantec, more than 240 million new malicious programs have been observed last year. The study illustrates clearly that cyber criminals increasingly focusing to get help of the online resources to perform their attacks. The study indicates that most malicious activities are observed [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, cybersecurity, News Tags: Internet Security Threat Report, Malware Research, Symantec 10 Comments » February 16th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A New case has been observed by Symantec about sailing a fake antivirus product with real time technical support to victims. After installing the fake antivirus software popup windows open to alert victims about detecting malware with an unusual yellow button on the screen leads to an online support. After clicking on the Support Online [...]
April 27th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to Nemesis/t3am3lite (name of a website), Symantec’s site too is now open to XSS (cross-site scripting) attacks together with Iframe injections. An XSS attack, according to security experts, launches when a web program collects vicious data from an end-user mostly via a hyperlink that carries malicious content inside it. Thus, as the end-user clicks [...]
Posted in Vulnerabilities Tags: Security, Symantec, Vulnerability, Web, XSS Vulnerability 1 Comment » February 24th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Symentic reported that there is a new 0day vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel (other versions may be affected as well).Symantec is saying that the vulnerability is being exploited by a variant of the Mdropper trojan, which they are calling Trojan.Mdropper.AC. There is no patch for the vulnerability yet and the only workaround available at the [...]
