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 » November 23rd, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft going to release Windows 8 on next year with several new features, the new operating system can be purchased online with a simple installation that takes few minutes. Installation processes takes about 11 mouse clicks to make it as simple as possible and require 3GB of free hard disk space. Upgrading from previous windows [...]
August 5th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft about to release on 9th of August a larger scale software update with 13 patches that will fix 22 vulnerabilities. Two of the 13 bulletins for this month’s Patch Tuesday were rated “critical” by Microsoft, the highest threat ranking in its four-step system. Nine were pegged “important” and the remaining pair were labeled “moderate.” [...]
Posted in Software Security, Vulnerabilities Tags: Microsft, patch, Patch Tuesday, Software Update, windows No Comments » 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 4th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua False positives high number and complexity of signatures development can makes some intrusion detection and prevention systems useless. How many time you visit an organization especially small to medium business that do have a firewall includes IDS/IPS and the system manager are even not following logs. This can leave all system vulnerable as we have [...]
Posted in Software Security, Tools Tags: Microsoft, Network Inspection System (NIS), patch management, windows No Comments » March 14th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft is investigating new public reports of vulnerability in all supported editions of Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a victim to run malicious scripts when visiting various Web sites, resulting in information disclosure. This impact is similar to server-side cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. MHTML, or Mime HTML, is a standard [...]
November 24th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua One month ago vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which could be exploited by local attackers to take complete control of a vulnerable system. This bug caused by an access validation error in the Task Scheduler service that fails to prevent users from manipulating certain fields in schema XML files via the Component Object [...]
