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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 August'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: 2 High, 2 Medium, 2 Low and 2 Informational.

August 2006

Debian issues patches for Firefox flaws

(High risk) Debian has issued an update for Mozilla Firefox, fixing 13 vulnerabilities Read More

Microsoft's July 'Patch Tuesday'

(High risk) Microsoft's July security update addresses five 'critical' vulnerabilities Read More

A bug for every day in July

(Medium risk) HD Moore, who created security tool Metasploit Framework, declared that he would publish a new bug for every day in July on his blog Read More

OpenOffice security holes patched

(Medium risk) Three vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenOffice, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. Read More

Financial Trojan

(Low risk) A worrying new potential Trojan called DNSChanger.eg can redirect website visitors to fake financial sites, even if they type in the correct URL Read More

Voice phishing attacks

(Low risk) Customers of the Santa Barbara Bank & Trust in America, along with PayPal customers throughout the world, have recently been targeted by phishers who email them prompting them to call a number to verify their account details Read More

NTA's ike-scan one of the most popular network tools

(Informational) Ike scan is among the 100 favourite network tools Read More

Proof-of-concept cross-platform virus found

(Informational) A new proof-of-concept virus has come to light that creates malicious code to infect Linux and Microsoft Windows Read More

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