December 13th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is vulnerable to new attack where a hacker can reboot the smartphone remotely using a special SMS. Embedded devices are very attractive to hackers as they do not include standard security software and they accept remote instructions. The bug is not executed over SMS only but it is possible to run [...]
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Tags: Microsoft, SpyEye, Vulnerabilities & attacks, windows, Windows Phone 7, Zeus 
No Comments » 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 [...]
August 25th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Apache Killer a new exploit that uses a serious Apache vulnerability discovered over 54 months ago, the bug allows hacker to conduct a denial of service attack and turn any web server down. Under certain conditions Apache internally is inefficient at handling such request which ‘explode’ into many 100′s of internal requests for large byte [...]
July 28th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New vulnerability have been discovered in Wireshark 1.6.1 that affects IKEv1 protocol function proto_tree_add_item() this bug allow to conduct a denial of service attack. This is not the first vulnerability that has been discovered lately in wireshark as in the 18th of April Paul Makowski working for SEI/CERT discovered vulnerability allows a remote user that [...]
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 [...]
July 9th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft about to release new patches for different windows operating systems, severity of these updates classified between important to critical for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Microsoft Visio 2003. Organizations always focus on their business in the local activities and most of them not aware that if [...]
July 7th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Antisec again attacked. This time the group has carried out an operation called “Turkish Takedown Thursday”. Anonymous hackers defaced 74 Turkish web sites on behalf of Antisec, leaving the following message on main page of each website: Turkey already arrested 32 persons said to be involved in the attacks on the government sites last week. [...]
