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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 February'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: 0 High, 5 Medium, 2 Low and 2 Informational.

February 2006

New virus set to wipe out multiple files on 3rd February

(Medium risk) Nyxem-E has infected over 700,000 systems as measured using a counter web site used by the worm to track itself Read More

AOL's online photo album service reveals vulnerabilities

(Medium risk) You've Got Pictures can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow Read More

ISPs told to help to eradicate Sober worm

(Informational) Some say that infected PCs should be cut off from the Internet by their service providers, as they are in the best position to identify infected users Read More

Mobile phone Trojans start to circulate

(Low risk) Bootton.E, Pbstealer.D and Sendtool.A were first spotted in mid January and currently appear to have a low infection rate Read More

PDFdirectory vulnerability permits SQL injection attacks

(Medium risk) Those using and updating a printable PDF directory could find themselves suffering SQL injection attacks Read More

Spammer is fined $11 billion

(Informational) The US government is taking spamming seriously as one spammer is fined $11 billion and banned from using the Internet for 3 years Read More

Mozilla Thunderbird attachment vulnerability

(Medium risk) .exe and .lnk file attachments can be spoofed in Mozilla Thunderbird if the email attachment is not displayed correctly Read More

Cross site scripting attack possible in Trac's wiki processor

(Medium risk) Trac discovers a cross site scripting vulnerability in its wiki processor when viewed using Internet Explorer or Opera Read More

Windows XP and 2000 permits automatic WiFi connections searching

(Low risk) Automatic 'hotspot' searching on wireless PCs could permit attackers to connect to a peer-to-peer network Read More

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