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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 October'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 11 risk issues: 7 High, 1 Medium, 0 Low and 3 Informational.

October 2005

DoS goes mobile

(Medium risk) A failure in the OS to handle certain filename characters in Bluetooth OBEX transfers may cause a DoS attack on certain models of Nokia mobile phones. Read More

Cisco woes

(High risk) The Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions feature in specific versions of Cisco IOS software is vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow condition. Read More

Instant messages may bring instant problems

(Informational) The coming of age of IM viruses. Read More

Adware/spyware beware!

(Informational) Adware and spyware programs could face multiple law suits from computer users. Read More

Apple fixes flaws

(High risk) Mac OS fixes continue to be released, following a major release in August 2005. Read More

Cisco woes

(High risk) The Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions feature in specific versions of Cisco IOS software is vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow condition. Read More

Firefox vulnerability

(High risk) More troubles for the folks at Mozilla Foundation as another vulnerability is found in the popular browser Firefox. Read More

More Firefox vulnerability

(High risk) Yet another Mozilla Firefox vulnerability is discovered: IDN "Host:" Buffer Overflow, which allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on an affected host. Read More

New phish on the block

(Informational) New phishers deceive with phony certificates. Read More

Real issues with RealPlayer

(High risk) Serious troubles are brewing in some versions of RealPlayer. Worse, this is purportedly a zero-day exploit as the researcher posted the discovery before a fix was found. Read More

Local Vulnerability makes Sun go loco

(High risk) A local vulnerability has been discover on Solaris Xsun and Xprt that may allow Privilege Escalation. Read More

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