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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

February 2006

Welcome to February'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: 5 Medium, 2 Low and 2 Informational .

New virus set to wipe out multiple files on 3rd February

(Medium risk) Nyxem-E has infected over 700,000 systems as measured using a counter web site used by the worm to track itself 1st February 2006 Read More

AOL's online photo album service reveals vulnerabilities

(Medium risk) You've Got Pictures can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow 30th February 2006 Read More

ISPs told to help to eradicate Sober worm

(Informational) Some say that infected PCs should be cut off from the Internet by their service providers, as they are in the best position to identify infected users 30th February 2006 Read More

Mobile phone Trojans start to circulate

(Low risk) Bootton.E, Pbstealer.D and Sendtool.A were first spotted in mid January and currently appear to have a low infection rate 30th February 2006 Read More

PDFdirectory vulnerability permits SQL injection attacks

(Medium risk) Those using and updating a printable PDF directory could find themselves suffering SQL injection attacks 30th February 2006 Read More

Spammer is fined $11 billion

(Informational) The US government is taking spamming seriously as one spammer is fined $11 billion and banned from using the Internet for 3 years 30th February 2006 Read More

Mozilla Thunderbird attachment vulnerability

(Medium risk) .exe and .lnk file attachments can be spoofed in Mozilla Thunderbird if the email attachment is not displayed correctly 30th February 2006 Read More

Cross site scripting attack possible in Trac's wiki processor

(Medium risk) Trac discovers a cross site scripting vulnerability in its wiki processor when viewed using Internet Explorer or Opera 30th February 2006 Read More

Windows XP and 2000 permits automatic WiFi connections searching

(Low risk) Automatic 'hotspot' searching on wireless PCs could permit attackers to connect to a peer-to-peer network 30th February 2006 Read More

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