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Living with threats

1st August 2010 Back in 2004, Bill Gates predicted that spam would be a thing of the past within two years. As we all know now, and quite a lot of people predicted at the time, far from being a solved problem, the volume of spam has continued to increase. Read More

Web application security goes from bad to worse in many sectors

27th July 2010 NTA Monitor's 2010 Annual Web Application Security Report analysed the data gathered from web application security tests performed for a wide range of industry sectors over a 12-month period... Read More

IT Managers get to grips with Internet security issues

4th May 2010 According to NTA Monitor's 2010 Annual Security Report, the average number of Internet security vulnerabilities afflicting organisations has fallen.. Read More

Responsible Patching

1st January 2010 Microsoft's response to the "zero day" exploit that was used in the cyber attacks against Google shows that software vendors still have a lot to learn when it comes to responding to vulnerabilities. Read More

August 2005

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 IT security testing company. It provides a convenient way to keep up to date with the fast changing world of IT security; this month's edition includes a total of 10 risk issues: 7 High, 1 Medium, 1 Low and 1 Informational .

A light load on the MS Patch Train

(High risk) the regular MS Patch Train is carrying just 3 passengers this month. 30th August 2005 Read More

The fight over a slice of the China market hots up: MS vs Google

(Informational) The search giant Google is accused of poaching a top Microsoft executive to run its newly expanded Chinese operation. 30th August 2005 Read More

vulnerability in Avaya/HP-UX

(Medium risk) Avaya system products using HP-UX is vulnerable to a Remote Denial of Service attack. There isn't a patch available at the time of writing but there is a work-around to mitigate this vulnerability. 30th August 2005 Read More

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchman?)

(High risk) You rely on Cisco Security Agent (CSA) a network security software agent that provides threat protection for server and desktop computing systems, but who ensures that the CSA works the way it should? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? 30th August 2005 Read More

Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

(High risk) a busy month for the folks at Mozilla Foundation as they roll out the latest version of the popular web browser Firefox version 1.0.5. 30th August 2005 Read More

A new tune from iTunes

(Low risk) A new instant messaging worm that masquerades as Apple's iTunes application and drops adware on infected Windows PCs has been found. 30th August 2005 Read More

A light load on the MS Patch Train

(High risk) The regular MS Patch Train is carrying just 3 updates this month. 30th August 2005 Read More

49 Oracle patches, but still not enough

(High risk) 30th August 2005 Read More

Phishing gets personal Spear Phishing

(High risk) There is a new game in town, and it's called Spear Phishing - a variation of the Phishing attack. 30th August 2005 Read More

This monkey is slippery

(High risk) Firefox slips up through Greasemonkey flaw 30th August 2005 Read More

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