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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 July'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 10 risk issues: 5 High, 2 Medium, 0 Low and 3 Informational.

July 2005

Cisco under fire for VPN vulnerability

(High risk) VPNs are not as secure as they were thought to be: Groupname enumeration flaw discovered. Read More

Is it a flaw or functionality?

(Medium risk) Microsoft does not plan to patch against pop-up phishing. What Secunia calls a less critical vulnerability, Microsoft says is just standard functionality. Read More

Hackers get organised

(Informational) Global enterprises under siege from high-level high-tech crime organisations. Read More

Patches for various flavours of Linux

(High risk) Various, highly critical vulnerabilities and patches for varieties of Linux Read More

Microsoft security update

(High risk) An average month on the MS Patch Train Read More

The MS Patch Day

(Informational) Love it or hate it, MS touches the lives of all of us to various degrees. Ever wonder what goes into all the MS patches? Attached are excerpts from an article which took a rare glimpse into the inside workings of the MSRC (Microsoft Security Response Center). Read More

Opera Web Browser may be the favourite of phishers

(Medium risk) Opera Web Browser fails to properly enforce security restrictions on the XMLHttpRequest Object. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to insert content from potentially malicious web sites. Read More

Is someone scanning your port 445?

(Informational) A recent rise in scanning activities on port 445 may well be the prelude to major attacks. Read More

Don't let the Sun go down

(High risk) A program used in both Solaris and Java Desktop System contains a highly critical vulnerability Read More

VERITAS Backup Exec allows for more than remote backup

(High risk) Buffer overflow vulnerability in VERITAS Software Backup Exec Web Administration Console (BEWAC) Read More

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