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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

December 2005

Welcome to December'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 15 risk issues: 9 High, 3 Medium, 1 Low and 2 Informational .

Avaya VPNRemote VPN Client Password Disclosure vulnerability

(Low risk) NTA Monitor has discovered a password disclosure issue in the Avaya VPNRemote VPN client 30th December 2005 Read More

Cisco Security Alert

(High risk) A locally exploitable vulnerability in various Cisco CSA products has been reported by the French security firm FrSIRT. 30th December 2005 Read More

Flaws in Ethereal

(Medium risk) Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ethereal 30th December 2005 Read More

Overhaul for Firefox

(Medium risk) Firefox 1.5 is now available for download, marking the end of a thriving year for the browser. 30th December 2005 Read More

Google Mini Search Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Multiple flaws have been discovered in Google's Mini Search Appliance 30th December 2005 Read More

ISAKMP Flaws in Symantec products

(Medium risk) While testing against a range of nearly 5000 potential ISAKMP vulnerabilities, Symantec uncovered a buffer overflow flaw that affects some of its products. 30th December 2005 Read More

ISAKMP advisory

(Informational) CERT-FI and NISCC have released a joint advisory disclosing multiple vulnerabilities in implementation of the ISAKMP Protocol 30th December 2005 Read More

Apple's iTunes 6 vulnerability

(High risk) A critical vulnerability has been found in some versions of Apple's popular iTunes that could allow attackers to remotely take over a user's computer. 30th December 2005 Read More

Keyloggers

(Informational) The stealthy world of keyloggers 30th December 2005 Read More

Lotus Domino

(High risk) Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in IBM's Lotus Domino and Lotus Domino Web Access, which could result in Denial of Service attacks. 30th December 2005 Read More

Microsoft Patch Train

(High risk) A lone passenger on the regular MS Patch Train this month. A critical one though. 30th December 2005 Read More

Opera Flaw

(High risk) The security firm Secunia has reported a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by people to compromise a user's system. 30th December 2005 Read More

phpBB flaw

(High risk) Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in the popular Open Source bulletin board package phpBB. 30th December 2005 Read More

QuickTime

(High risk) Multiple vulnerabilities in Apple QuickTime have been reported that could result in Denial of Service to System Access. 30th December 2005 Read More

SCO OpenServer update for Multiple Packages.

(High risk) SCO has issued a maintenance pack for OpenServer that fixes various vulnerabilities. 30th December 2005 Read More

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