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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

October 2005

Welcome to October'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 11 risk issues: 7 High, 1 Medium and 3 Informational .

DoS goes mobile

(Medium risk) A failure in the OS to handle certain filename characters in Bluetooth OBEX transfers may cause a DoS attack on certain models of Nokia mobile phones. 30th October 2005 Read More

Cisco woes

(High risk) The Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions feature in specific versions of Cisco IOS software is vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow condition. 30th October 2005 Read More

Instant messages may bring instant problems

(Informational) The coming of age of IM viruses. 30th October 2005 Read More

Adware/spyware beware!

(Informational) Adware and spyware programs could face multiple law suits from computer users. 30th October 2005 Read More

Apple fixes flaws

(High risk) Mac OS fixes continue to be released, following a major release in August 2005. 30th October 2005 Read More

Cisco woes

(High risk) The Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions feature in specific versions of Cisco IOS software is vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow condition. 30th October 2005 Read More

Firefox vulnerability

(High risk) More troubles for the folks at Mozilla Foundation as another vulnerability is found in the popular browser Firefox. 30th October 2005 Read More

More Firefox vulnerability

(High risk) Yet another Mozilla Firefox vulnerability is discovered: IDN "Host:" Buffer Overflow, which allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on an affected host. 30th October 2005 Read More

New phish on the block

(Informational) New phishers deceive with phony certificates. 30th October 2005 Read More

Real issues with RealPlayer

(High risk) Serious troubles are brewing in some versions of RealPlayer. Worse, this is purportedly a zero-day exploit as the researcher posted the discovery before a fix was found. 30th October 2005 Read More

Local Vulnerability makes Sun go loco

(High risk) A local vulnerability has been discover on Solaris Xsun and Xprt that may allow Privilege Escalation. 30th October 2005 Read More

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