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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 May'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 8 risk issues: 4 High, 1 Medium, 0 Low and 3 Informational.

May 2006

Microsoft

(High risk) Microsoft's latest updates is released and Trojan circulating disguised as Microsoft patch Read More

Mozilla flaws

(High risk) Multiple flaws have been found in Mozilla, the most serious of which could enable a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system Read More

Oracle flaws patched

(High risk) More than 30 vulnerabilities have been patched in multiple Oracle products Read More

RealPlayer

(High risk) Invalid chunk size heap overflow vulnerability found in RealNetworks RealPlayer and Helix Player Read More

Banking tokens intercepted

(Medium risk) A new Trojan has been discovered that can intercept security tokens used by customers of two large German banks Read More

Banking security tokens

(Informational) HSBC follows in the footsteps of Lloyds TSB and issues its business customers with security token devices Read More

Debit card fraud

(Informational) Debit card fraud is growing and one bank has blocked the use of several hundred debit cards after instances of data theft emerge Read More

Mobile phone spyware

(Informational) New mobile phone spying software is labelled as malware Read More

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