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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 June'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 10 risk issues: 3 High, 0 Medium, 4 Low and 3 Informational.

June 2006

Firefox DoS flaw fixed

(High risk) Mozilla has only recently released the newest version of Firefox - version 1.5.0.3, which fixed a variety of security flaws, but new flaws have since come to light that Secunia has classified as 'highly critical'. Read More

Latest Microsoft flaws

(High risk) Microsoft's May bulletin addressed three vulnerabilities and an addition issued a week later addressed the Word exploit recently discovered Read More

Some Apple flaws affect Mac and Windows

(High risk) Apple released a security advisory on Thursday 11th May, detailing 31 flaws found in Mac OS X that affect client and server versions Read More

MasterCard and Visa

(Low risk) Over 4000 MasterCard and Visa holders have had their cards stopped after a security breach with a UK online retailer Read More

Ransom Trojan appears

(Low risk) Aggressive demands for money have been circulating, accompanied by a Trojan Read More

Voice over IP concerns

(Low risk) Concern is growing about the security of VoIP calls Read More

World Cup Trojan

(Low risk) A new Trojan has started to circulate, masquerading as a World Cup wallchart Read More

Anti-spammers get spammed

(Informational) Users of Blue Security, an anti-spam system that sends multiple opt-out messages to spammers, have been spammed Read More

Canadian train message board hacked

(Informational) A Canadian train's LED message board system was recently hacked, to the embarrassment of Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. Instead of displaying the name of the next station, it read 'Stephen Harper eats babies' Read More

Kazachstan rocker convicted

(Informational) Former Kazachstan rocker, Sergey Kazachkov, has been convicted of distributing over 4000 unique viruses through two virus-exchanging websites. Read More

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