December 5th, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua On this Tuesday we are going to have the regular monthly update by Microsoft the release will include a set of patches to fix 12 problem, we can find among the patches a fix to Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability. These releases are issued for windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, 2008 as [...]
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Tags: Microsoft, Operating Systems, sophos, Update 
9 Comments » November 6th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New set of patches have been released by Adobe to fix 5 critical vulnerabilities in the Shockwave player. Adobe invites all shockwave users to update immediately there flash players, Four of these five bugs allows an attacker to execute a malicious code remotely which have been discovered by VUPEN security researchers. According to the research [...]
Posted in News, Vulnerabilities Tags: Adobe, Security, Shockwave, Update, Vulnerability 7 Comments » August 24th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua VMware has released new security advisory VMSA-2009-0010, in this advisory there is updates for the VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE and a pending updates for VMware Server 1.X and 2.X. According to the Security advisory descriptions there were discovered in the way third party library libpng handled uninitialized pointers. An attacker could create a [...]
July 28th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sysinternal announced some major updates for their tools package. The most interesting in these updates is the end life of Filemon and Regmon and adding a number of enhancements for Procmon, including new by-extension and by-directory views in the File Summary dialog, a new Network Summary view, quick filtering in all the summary views, additional [...]
June 18th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Big number of fixes surprising, but no known malicious software for devices Apple Inc released 45 software patches on Wednesday to address rare security vulnerabilities in its popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices. The company released them as part of its widely anticipated iPhone 3.0 operating system. “This is a large cluster of patches [...]
Posted in Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: 45, flaws, iphone, ipod, Operating Systems, patches, Security, Update, Vulnerability 4 Comments » June 15th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Panda have recently released a new antivirus solution for Pcs and servers that are based on the concept of Software as a Service. in usual cases Implementing AV solution for companies can take a pretty long time and the management of this solution also demand a good number of specialist in the security area to [...]
Posted in Software Security Tags: antivirus, panda, Security, Update, Viruses And Worms No Comments » May 13th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft is set to test Windows 7′s update mechanism by issuing as many as 10 fake updates for the operating system over the coming week. It will be the second time that Microsoft has released phony updates for Windows 7. In February, it tested the beta by delivering five bogus patches. People running Windows 7 [...]
