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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

August 2006

Welcome to August'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 8 risk issues: 2 High, 2 Medium, 2 Low and 2 Informational .

Debian issues patches for Firefox flaws

(High risk) Debian has issued an update for Mozilla Firefox, fixing 13 vulnerabilities 1st August 2006 Read More

Microsoft's July 'Patch Tuesday'

(High risk) Microsoft's July security update addresses five 'critical' vulnerabilities 1st August 2006 Read More

A bug for every day in July

(Medium risk) HD Moore, who created security tool Metasploit Framework, declared that he would publish a new bug for every day in July on his blog 1st August 2006 Read More

OpenOffice security holes patched

(Medium risk) Three vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenOffice, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. 1st August 2006 Read More

Financial Trojan

(Low risk) A worrying new potential Trojan called DNSChanger.eg can redirect website visitors to fake financial sites, even if they type in the correct URL 1st August 2006 Read More

Voice phishing attacks

(Low risk) Customers of the Santa Barbara Bank & Trust in America, along with PayPal customers throughout the world, have recently been targeted by phishers who email them prompting them to call a number to verify their account details 1st August 2006 Read More

NTA's ike-scan one of the most popular network tools

(Informational) Ike scan is among the 100 favourite network tools 1st August 2006 Read More

Proof-of-concept cross-platform virus found

(Informational) A new proof-of-concept virus has come to light that creates malicious code to infect Linux and Microsoft Windows 1st August 2006 Read More

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