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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: 4 High, 2 Medium, 0 Low and 2 Informational.

August 2007

Critical IE and Firefox flaw fixed

(High risk) A critical flaw that affected both IE and Firefox has been patched. The flaw allowed an attacker to remotely execute malicious code on a machine that runs IE but also has Firefox installed Read More

iPhone vulnerabilities disclosed

(High risk) At the end of June, Apple's iPhone was released and just 72 hours afterwards, a variety of flaws were publicised Read More

Microsoft's latest patches updated

(High risk) Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday addressed six flaws - three critical, two important and one moderate Read More

Critical buffer overflow in Panda's anti-virus program

(High risk) Panda AntiVirus has a critical buffer overflow vulnerability, which is caused due to a boundary error when parsing .EXE files Read More

XSS flaw found in Oracle's E-Business Suite

(Medium risk) An input validation vulnerability has been discovered in Oracle's E-Business Suite, which could permit Cross-Site Scripting attacks if successfully exploited Read More

Zero day flaw found in Linux-based Yoggie Pico

(Medium risk) Senior director at Linux-based Yoggie Pico plays down reports that a recent flaw discovered permits remote code execution Read More

'Horrifying' number of organisations breach data protection rules

(Informational) According to the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, a 'horrifying' number of organisations have breached data protection rules in the last year Read More

Online auction site opens for security flaws

(Informational) An online auction site has opened for security flaws, enabling researchers who discover vulnerabilities to profit from their findings Read More

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