NTA Monitor

Latest News

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

March 2006

Welcome to March'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 10 risk issues: 3 High, 2 Medium, 2 Low and 3 Informational .

Multiple vulnerabilities are discovered by Protos test suite

(High risk) Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in IKEv1, the protocol used by many products worldwide 3rd March 2006 Read More

82 unwanted security bugs

(Medium risk) Updates are available for multiple Oracle products, covering a total of 82 security risks 4th March 2006 Read More

Maliciously creative

(Low risk) Local users can bypass security restrictions to remove files 1st March 2006 Read More

How to crash Firefox till the end of history

(High risk) On 1st February, Mozilla issued Firefox 1.5 updates, classifying the need to update to version 1.5.0.1 as "highly critical" 1st March 2006 Read More

Microsoft's February update addresses 9 issues

(High risk) Microsoft's most recent monthly update was issued on 14th February and covered 7 vulnerabilities, 2 of which were deemed to be highly critical 1st March 2006 Read More

Sometimes there's a lot more to 'I love you' than meets the eye

(Low risk) Malicious Valentine's e-cards and fake dating websites surfaced days before Valentine's Day 1st March 2006 Read More

A lot more phish than you think

(Informational) The Anti-Phishing Working Group has issued its Phishing Activity Trends Report 2005 10th March 2006 Read More

Goldilocks burglar bears his identity by going online

(Informational) A 24-year-old drug abuse centre escapee broke into 5 properties in February and made himself at home 9th March 2006 Read More

IE Beta anyone?

(Informational) IE7 Beta is available but is experiencing mixed reactions 5th March 2006 Read More

IBM Notes 6ix flaws

(Medium risk) Six highly critical Lotus Notes vulnerabilities have been fixed by IBM, all of which related to file attachments 31st March 2006 Read More

About NTA Monitor

This bulletin is produced as a by-product of ongoing research carried out to develop NTA Monitor's Internet security testing service, Regular Monitor. NTA are a full-service Internet security testing company with a comprehensive range of testing services including:

For more information on the above services please see our services page.