January 6th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft issued an advance notification for their next patch Tuesday which include seven bulletins that affect all operating systems and Microsoft Developer Tools. Vulnerabilities Severity Rating are critical to important and most of them require restart of the operating system. The critical one allow an attacker to run a remote code execution on windows media [...]
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Tags: patch, patches, Windows & Microsoft, Windows 7 
No Comments » October 6th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft about to release a new update to fix 23 vulnerabilities on different MS products, this update going to fix several critical vulnerabilities in windows operating system, Internet Explorer, Silverlight and .NET framework. According to the advance notification we find a patch to Microsoft Forefront UAG a security solution that delivers secure remote access to [...]
Posted in Software Security, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Microsoft, patches, patching, Windows & Microsoft No Comments » September 18th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft rolls out their new OS after every three years. Windows 7 was launched in the year 2010, so it is said that Windows 8 would be rolled out in 2013. Bill Gates in his blog states that, “We have already completed almost half of the part for Windows 8, we are looking forward to [...]
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 [...]
June 28th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft informed of a new kind of rootkit that hides in the boot sector MBR. This new malware makes any windows user have to reinstall the whole system to remove it. The new Trojan that Microsoft calls Popureb displays advertisements, and modifies the affected user’s Internet Explorer start page. The Trojan works by: MBR decrypts [...]
Posted in Malwares Tags: Anti-Malwares, Anti-virus, antivirus, Malware, Malware Research, Microsoft, Windows & Microsoft No Comments » June 8th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Protecting your systems against all manner of intrusions will provide more safety for your virtual life, by using complex passwords and a regular file check against changes, plus restricting anything and everything will keep these threats away. We are now at the summer season and at this time we travel and move from one location [...]
Posted in Best Practices Tags: Antiviruses, AVG, AVIRA, Best Practices, security essential, Windows & Microsoft 59 Comments » March 21st, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Installation, configuration, and management of software are large part of most system administrator’s jobs. Admin respond to installation and configuration requests from users, apply updates to fix security problems, and supervise transitions to new software releases that may offer both new features and incompatibilities. Microsoft Windows users may take a look at a tool called [...]
