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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 September'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 12 risk issues: 6 High, 5 Medium, 0 Low and 1 Informational.

September 2005

Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities

(High risk) 3 IE vulnerabilities have been discovered Read More

Early adopter of IPv6 faces problems

(Medium risk) Cisco IOS vulnerability could cause a DoS Read More

Microsoft Word Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in various flavours of MS Word that may allow remote code execution. Read More

Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X, which fixes more than 40 vulnerabilities. Read More

Who protects the protectors?

(High risk) A vulnerability has been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus, which potentially can be exploited to compromise a vulnerable system by causing a heap-based buffer overflow. The vulnerability has been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus Small Business Edition and in Sophos Anti-Virus versions prior to 3.96.0 and prior to 4.5.4. Read More

VERITAS Backup Exec / NetBackup Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability

(Medium risk) A locally-exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in Backup Exec. Read More

At the cusp of Zero-Day Exploit

(Informational) More than 100 companies have been hit by computer viruses that exploit a recently found loophole in Windows barely a week after the advisory was released by Microsoft. Read More

Publishing software giant publishes bug

(High risk) Adobe has released a buffer overflow flaw. An update is also made available. Read More

Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X, which fixes more than 40 vulnerabilities. Read More

Opera belts out new version

(Medium risk) Opera software has released a new version of their popular browser, which corrects several vulnerabilities. Read More

Microsoft Patch Train

(Medium risk) The regular MS Patch Train carries six passengers this month, with three critical updates. Read More

Windows Remote Desktop Protocol DoS Vulnerability

(Medium risk) Remote Desktop Services in Windows maybe exploited to cause DoS Read More

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