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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

January 2007

Welcome to January'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: 4 High, 2 Low and 4 Informational .

AOL 7.0 flaw

(High risk) AOL 7.x, 8.x and 9.x have a vulnerability that could compromise a user's system if exploited 8th January 2007 Read More

Microsoft monthly update - two critical flaws unaddressed

(High risk) Seven vulnerabilities were addressed in Microsoft's December security bulletin, three of which were ranked as 'critical' and four as 'important' 8th January 2007 Read More

Multiple high risk Firefox vulnerabilities

(High risk) Multiple Firefox vulnerabilities have been reported that could facilitate cross site scripting 8th January 2007 Read More

Yahoo! Messenger buffer overflow flaw

(High risk) A serious security flaw has come to light in Yahoo! Messenger, prompting users to upgrade 8th January 2007 Read More

Firefox password manager flaw

(Low risk) A flaw has been discovered in Firefox 2.0.0 that if exploited, could facilitate phishing attacks 8th January 2007 Read More

'Happy new year' worm

(Low risk) New year, new worm. The 'happy new year' worm spreads through malicious attachments 8th January 2007 Read More

Criminals recruiting IT graduates

(Informational) It has recently transpired that some criminals are grooming young IT students for a life of cybercrime 8th January 2007 Read More

MySpace passwords surprisingly strong

(Informational) As a result of a recent MySpace phishing attack, users' passwords were revealed to be relatively strong, with 45% including at least one number 8th January 2007 Read More

Online fraud up 8000%

(Informational) The Financial Services Authority (FSA) recently revealed that online fraud has increased by 8000% over the last two years 8th January 2007 Read More

UBS logic bomber sentenced

(Informational) A disgruntled former UBS Paine Webber employee caused $3 million worth of damage by unleashing a logic bomb onto the company's network 8th January 2007 Read More

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