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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

September 2006

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

Microsoft's August updates

(High risk) Microsoft released its monthly updates on Tuesday 8 August, most of which addressed Windows vulnerabilities 1st September 2006 Read More

McAfee holes patched

(Medium risk) At the beginning of August, McAfee sent out a SecurityCenter 7.0 update to fix flaws discovered in its SecurityCenter software 1st September 2006 Read More

E-passports cracked

(Low risk) A security consultant has shown how to clone electronic passports based on internationally agreed designs due to begin distribution this year 1st September 2006 Read More

HSBC's website security under fire

(Low risk) Researchers say the log-in systems used by HSBC and another major high street bank could be easily cracked by keylogging devices 1st September 2006 Read More

Ransomware getting harder to break

(Low risk) Although the first known ransomware attack happened only months ago, it appears that it's an emerging malware method that is getting harder to break. 1st September 2006 Read More

Yahoo! mail service vulnerability

(Low risk) Hackers may be able to gain access to Yahoo! email accounts by sending a malicious attachment 1st September 2006 Read More

AOL search data leaked

(Informational) AOL recently posted a file containing three months of anonymous search queries of 658,000 American users and then pulled the data down shortly afterwards, following a public outcry 1st September 2006 Read More

NTA nominated for industry award

(Informational) NTA Monitor has been nominated to receive the Communications in Business Editor's Award, which recognises excellence in the provision of products and/or services to UK ICT professionals 1st September 2006 Read More

Over 95% of emails are junk

(Informational) An astonishing 95% of emails are junk and only 1% of net emails can be regarded as legitimate 1st September 2006 Read More

Private investigator arrested at hacker convention

(Informational) A man who attended the Hope (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference in New York in July was arrested before he could even take part in a panel discussion 1st September 2006 Read More

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