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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

December 2006

Welcome to December'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 11 risk issues: 4 High, 2 Medium and 5 Informational .

Five critical Microsoft flaws

(High risk) Five critical issues and one important issue were addressed in Microsoft's November security bulletin, which affected a variety of products including Internet Explorer and Macromedia Flash Player 1st December 2006 Read More

Mac OS X flaw

(High risk) A new flaw has been found in Mac OS X that may enable local attackers to escalate user privileges or compromise a vulnerable system 1st December 2006 Read More

Opera buffer overflow flaw

(High risk) Very long links can cause Opera to crash, meaning that a specially crafted link could be used to execute malicious code on users' PCs 1st December 2006 Read More

PHP DoS flaws

(High risk) Vulnerabilities recently reported in PHP can be exploited to cause a Denial of Service or compromise a vulnerable system 1st December 2006 Read More

Mozilla Thunderbird flaws discovered

(Medium risk) Four vulnerabilities have been discovered in Thunderbird 1.5.x that may allow an attacker to bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross site scripting attacks and potentially compromise a vulnerable system 1st December 2006 Read More

Sophos DoS vulnerability

(Medium risk) Numerous versions of Sophos Anti-Virus have been affected by an error that arises when processing files compressed with Petite that contain a large number of sections 1st December 2006 Read More

Financial domain names being resold

(Informational) Some domain names being resold could be used to facilitate credit card or bank account fraud 1st December 2006 Read More

Google sends out Kama Sutra worm

(Informational) Early in November, Google inadvertantly sent out the Kama Sutra worm to 50,000 Google Video subscribers 1st December 2006 Read More

Virus writer targeted Wikipedia

(Informational) Wikipedia was recently targeted by a virus writer who uploaded a virus that was designed to collect information for future use in phishing campaigns 1st December 2006 Read More

New Second Life bug

(Informational) During November, the online world Second Life suffered from a self-replicating grey goo worm planting spinning gold rings around the virtual world 1st December 2006 Read More

New Second Life bug

(Informational) During November, the online world Second Life suffered from a self-replicating grey goo worm planting spinning gold rings around the virtual world 1st December 2006 Read More

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