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60% of UK website tests revealed Internet encryption and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

10th April 2008 60% of web application tests performed for UK organisations showed that their websites contain weak encryption or cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities Read More

Demilitarised Zone most secure option for BlackBerry device

28th February 2008 Recent BlackBerry testing by IT security consultancy, NTA Monitor, has revealed that organisations are still not configuring these mobile devices correctly Read More

Retailers should put security top of their Christmas list

13th November 2007 With British consumers spending more than £6.6 billion online in the last two months of last year, the 2007 festive season is set to be one of great cheer for online retailers Read More

Businesses warned not to have skeletons in cupboards

13th November 2007 For many organisations, the festive season is an opportunity to heave a corporate sigh of relief and enjoy the brief respite in frenetic business activity as countless people all over the world, go home to celebrate Christmas Read More
Welcome to May's edition of Internet Security News, the monthly risks bulletin detailing the latest Internet software and system vulnerabilities from NTA Monitor, a leading Internet security testing company. It provides a convenient way to keep up to date with the fast changing world of Internet security; this month's edition includes a total of 7 risk issues: 0 High, 4 Medium, 0 Low and 3 Informational.

May 2004

Browser, Browser on the wall, who is the most secure of them all?

(Informational) Browser-based attacks are becoming more of a threat to corporate IT security, with a survey of nearly 900 organisations finding that 36.8 percent were plagued by one or more browser-based attacks over the last six months Read More

Would you like a cherry flavoured virus?

(Medium risk) An unknown group of VXers has released a new version of the Bagle worm, which opens back doors on infected PCs and turns them into zombie clients in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) or spam networks Read More

At full time in Redmond, it's Issues/Vulnerabilities 24 - Microsoft 24

(Medium risk) Spring is a time for growth. And Microsoft has taken this maxim to heart by releasing an unprecedented number of security fixes on the same day Read More

Forget Car-jacking, this is Windows-Jacking

(Medium risk) Security researchers have discovered a serious boundary error vulnerability in multiple versions of Microsoft's Windows platform and warned that attackers could hijack systems via Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer Read More

'I go away for 3 days and return to find this out?'

(Medium risk) European sysadmins returning to work after a long Bank Holiday weekend are in for a nasty surprise with the appearance of a fast-spreading Blaster-like Internet worm Read More

Subject: Internet, Condition: Critical but Stable

(Informational) A security researcher has developed a new attack for a well-known flaw in the TCP protocol that allows an attacker to effectively shut down targeted routers and terminate existing TCP sessions at will Read More

Service Pack 2 for XP delayed, new release date next month, sometime...

(Informational) Microsoft has delayed the planned release date of its next update to Windows XP by about a month Read More

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