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 [...]
August 9th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On the 6th of August Twitter went down for a pretty long period. After a while a brief message was added on the Twitter status says they’re fighting off a DDOS attack right now. Well the most interesting that the distributed denial-of-service attack also affected Facebook, LiveJournal and Google’s Blogger. The idea of distributed denial-of-service [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking, Internet, News, Social Networking, Web Security Tags: Botnet, DDOS, denial of service, DOS attack, Facebook, Google, Security, Twitter, windows 2 Comments » June 10th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Oopsy-daisy! According to complaints on McAfee’s message board, a mandatory service pack for the company’s antivirus VSE 8.7 software has left some machines unbootable. The update, which was issued on May 27 and later pulled on June 2, was intended to squash minor security bugs, but also inadvertently flagged some Windows system files as malware. [...]
