January 20th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Keeping your system updated is very important to avoid new malwares and to fix vulnerabilities that allow a malicious user have a full control on your system, well I used to enable the automatic update on all Microsoft based systems as we have monthly the patch Tuesday tradition. Now this seems to be not enough [...]
December 27th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Vulnerabilities exists in all platforms and systems, if you are using any application you need to have the latest version to be sure that there is no bug risks working with it. If we are talking about security than this may affect the availability of this application so any vulnerability can crash , confidentiality of [...]
November 4th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Networks are huge. It is mind blowing how many different elements make up a network. You have at a high level the software and hardware. You get many different flavors of operating systems which might also differ in patch level and service packs installed on each. Hardware is even more diverse; apart from the different [...]
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Tags: GFI, GFI Languard, Guest blog, Vulnerabilities Assessment, Vulnerability management 
No Comments » August 30th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Any security professional have his own way and tools to conduct vulnerability assessment , the problem that we have when using different security assessment tools that utilities produce several reports with different results. This is not the only problem another important point is that these tools are expensive to purchase and depending on situation you [...]
June 3rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Cisco has released security advisories for four products to address multiple vulnerabilities. These products include Cisco Unified IP phones, Cisco Network Registrar, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, and Cisco Media Experience. Exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, operate with escalated privileges, or gain administrative access. Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco Unified [...]
November 24th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today using online resources with a vulnerable system can make you exposed for new malwares and attacks, windows or any other operating system provides the daily automatic update for the OS component but not to all browser plugins and programs. Your browser may be insecure for multiple reasons. It may contain a software issue that [...]
Posted in Operating System, Safety rules, Software Security, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Client-Side Security, Panda ActiveScan 2.0, Plugin Check for Mozilla, Qualys BrowserCheck, Secunia Online Software Inspector (OSI), Vulnerabilities & attacks, Vulnerability management, Vulnerability Research 11 Comments » March 26th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Secunia Danish computer security service provider announced the final version of the Secunia Corporate Software Inspector 4.0 (CSI 4.0). This tool may identify vulnerabilities for about 13 000 applications from 2300 developers. CSI 4.0 has a free trial version which can be downloaded from the official website. And brings CSI 4.0 with Microsoft server operating [...]
