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 [...]
March 6th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft is preparing for a relatively modest Patch Tuesday with only three security bulletins. Among the three there are only one rated “critical”, while the other two are “important”. The critical bulletin, as well as one of the bulletins classified as important, affects Microsoft Windows. The other bulletin affects Microsoft Office. “The upcoming Patch Tuesday [...]
Posted in Operating System, Software Security, Vulnerabilities 
Tags: Operating System, patches, Windows & Microsoft 
11 Comments » November 27th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua System administrators are faced with a lot of challenges and many different tasks, running across the company or from floor to another will not help in solving these tasks but it will make them more complicated. Now if your infrastructure is based on windows environment using remote desktop is not a good idea, you may [...]
October 3rd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua When you are running an antivirus many people do not like the fact that the AV removes the malwares directly, without asking for permission. Especially if a person looking to analyze or reverse viruses there is no chance to find what you are looking for without testing and understanding what this malware is able to [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Software Security, Tools Tags: antivirus, ApiMonitor, CWSandbox, iDEFENSE LABS, Malware, Sandboxie, Security, spyware, sysinternal, VirusTotal, VX Heavens, Windows & Microsoft 9 Comments » March 7th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today’s Malware Strategy and Tactics are advanced and sophisticated. The main purpose for that is to trick antiviruses. Some are using encryption to make the detection difficult for any security software product, other add an AutoRuns to the registry entries to defend itself against anti-malware software or just adding a line to the host file [...]
February 27th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Malicious software pieces like viruses, worms and bots are currently one of the largest threats to the security of the Internet. Antivirus Labs have invested great Money for analyzing and reversing viruses, but for our case we can perform the analysis using some useful tools on our PC. Let’s start with www.virustotal.com , if I [...]
