NTA Monitor

Latest News

Finance industry faces serious IT security issues

23rd June 2008 The finance industry needs to keep its eye on the small change as well as the bigger picture of its security vulnerabilities Read More

Retail sector faces serious IT security issues

23rd June 2008 The retail sector needs to set out its stall and ring the changes in its security vulnerabilities if it is to avoid the potential for hackers to gain unauthorised system access and disrupt service availability Read More

IT managers have more security headaches to deal with

11th May 2008 NTA Monitor's 2008 Annual Security Report has revealed that the average number of vulnerabilities found per test have increased to 21 compared with 19 in 2007 Read More

Solutions not excuses for patch management warns NTA Monitor

23rd April 2008 Patch management is a vital security requirement for any organsation Read More
Date: 1st August 2006
Risk: Medium

HD Moore, who created security tool Metasploit Framework, declared that he would publish a new bug for every day on his blog at http://browserfun.blogspot.com/ throughout July.

True to his word, Moore published a multitude of flaws, including some in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. The IE flaw could permit arbitrary code execution and is classified as 'highly critical' by Secunia.

On his blog at the beginning of July, Moore stated: "This blog will serve as a dumping ground for browser-based security research and vulnerability disclosure. The hacks we publish are carefully chosen to demonstrate a concept without disclosing a direct path to remote code execution."

References