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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

January 2006

Welcome to January'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: 2 High, 4 Medium, 2 Low and 1 Informational .

Criminals target viruses for cash

(Informational) At first glance, 2005 looks like it was a quiet year for computer security because there were far fewer serious Windows virus outbreaks than in 2004 30th January 2006 Read More

Security hole claimed for BlackBerrys

(Medium risk) BlackBerry handsets appear to be vulnerable to a security hole that could let attackers break into the gadgets by convincing users to open a specially crafted image file attached to an email 30th January 2006 Read More

Communique "query" cross-site scripting vulnerability

(Low risk) A vulnerability in Communique can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks 30th January 2006 Read More

Hitachi Business Logic multiple vulnerabilities

(Medium risk) Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Hitachi Business Logic, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting, HTTP response splitting, and SQL injection attacks 30th January 2006 Read More

LAND attacks against network devices

(Medium risk) A "LAND" attack involves IP packets where the source and destination address are set to address the same device 30th January 2006 Read More

Microsoft Windows WMF "SETABORTPROC" arbitrary code execution

(High risk) A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system 30th January 2006 Read More

Virus disguises itself as MSN Messenger beta

(Medium risk) A virus masquerading as a new beta version of Microsoft's MSN Messenger has begun circulating 30th January 2006 Read More

PHP-based web applications

(Low risk) There is a lot of scanning activity looking for vulnerabilities in PHP or web applications that are written in PHP 30th January 2006 Read More

Symantec AntiVirus decomposition buffer overflow

(High risk) Symantec is aware of a buffer overflow in its AntiVirus component used to decompose RAR (Roshal Archive). A specially crafted RAR file could potentially cause this buffer overflow to occur and possibly execute hostile content from the RAR file on the targeted system 30th January 2006 Read More

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