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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

September 2005

Welcome to September'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 12 risk issues: 6 High, 5 Medium and 1 Informational .

Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities

(High risk) 3 IE vulnerabilities have been discovered 30th September 2005 Read More

Early adopter of IPv6 faces problems

(Medium risk) Cisco IOS vulnerability could cause a DoS 30th September 2005 Read More

Microsoft Word Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in various flavours of MS Word that may allow remote code execution. 30th September 2005 Read More

Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X, which fixes more than 40 vulnerabilities. 30th September 2005 Read More

Who protects the protectors?

(High risk) A vulnerability has been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus, which potentially can be exploited to compromise a vulnerable system by causing a heap-based buffer overflow. The vulnerability has been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus Small Business Edition and in Sophos Anti-Virus versions prior to 3.96.0 and prior to 4.5.4. 30th September 2005 Read More

VERITAS Backup Exec / NetBackup Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability

(Medium risk) A locally-exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in Backup Exec. 30th September 2005 Read More

At the cusp of Zero-Day Exploit

(Informational) More than 100 companies have been hit by computer viruses that exploit a recently found loophole in Windows barely a week after the advisory was released by Microsoft. 30th September 2005 Read More

Publishing software giant publishes bug

(High risk) Adobe has released a buffer overflow flaw. An update is also made available. 30th September 2005 Read More

Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X, which fixes more than 40 vulnerabilities. 30th September 2005 Read More

Opera belts out new version

(Medium risk) Opera software has released a new version of their popular browser, which corrects several vulnerabilities. 30th September 2005 Read More

Microsoft Patch Train

(Medium risk) The regular MS Patch Train carries six passengers this month, with three critical updates. 30th September 2005 Read More

Windows Remote Desktop Protocol DoS Vulnerability

(Medium risk) Remote Desktop Services in Windows maybe exploited to cause DoS 30th September 2005 Read More

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