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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

November 2005

Welcome to November'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 9 risk issues: 6 High, 1 Medium, 1 Low and 1 Informational .

BBC switches off BlackBerry service

(Low risk) A flaw in a service pack released for BlackBerry Enterprise Server was cause for a major BlackBerry network to shut down. 30th November 2005 Read More

HP-UX+Mozilla=VULN

(High risk) Hewlett-Packard has released updated packages to address multiple security vulnerabilities identified in Mozilla for HP-UX. These flaws could be exploited by malicious websites to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service. 30th November 2005 Read More

KAV might mean KIV

(Medium risk) A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Kaspersky Labs' Anti-Virus Engine. It requires minimal interaction by a targeted user and allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. 30th November 2005 Read More

KAV (again!)

(High risk) A vulnerability in Kaspersky Anti-Virus has been reported, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. 30th November 2005 Read More

MS patches

(High risk) The regular monthly MS patches ranging from critical to low. 30th November 2005 Read More

Skype brought down to Earth

(High risk) A security bug in the Skype user client, for all platforms, has been identified and fixed. 30th November 2005 Read More

Snort Back Orifice users cover yourselves

(High risk) The Snort Back Orifice pre-processor contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. 30th November 2005 Read More

A thunderous crash

(High risk) An updated Thunderbird package that fixes various bugs is now available for Fedora Core 3. 30th November 2005 Read More

Should you avoid VOIP?

(Informational) The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) has released its first description of the security threats faced by Internet telephony. 30th November 2005 Read More

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