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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 November'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 9 risk issues: 6 High, 1 Medium, 1 Low and 1 Informational.

November 2005

BBC switches off BlackBerry service

(Low risk) A flaw in a service pack released for BlackBerry Enterprise Server was cause for a major BlackBerry network to shut down. Read More

HP-UX+Mozilla=VULN

(High risk) Hewlett-Packard has released updated packages to address multiple security vulnerabilities identified in Mozilla for HP-UX. These flaws could be exploited by malicious websites to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service. Read More

KAV might mean KIV

(Medium risk) A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Kaspersky Labs' Anti-Virus Engine. It requires minimal interaction by a targeted user and allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Read More

KAV (again!)

(High risk) A vulnerability in Kaspersky Anti-Virus has been reported, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. Read More

MS patches

(High risk) The regular monthly MS patches ranging from critical to low. Read More

Skype brought down to Earth

(High risk) A security bug in the Skype user client, for all platforms, has been identified and fixed. Read More

Snort Back Orifice users cover yourselves

(High risk) The Snort Back Orifice pre-processor contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Read More

A thunderous crash

(High risk) An updated Thunderbird package that fixes various bugs is now available for Fedora Core 3. Read More

Should you avoid VOIP?

(Informational) The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) has released its first description of the security threats faced by Internet telephony. Read More

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