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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

March 2007

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 8 risk issues: 4 High and 4 Informational .

Adobe heap corruption flaw 'critical'

(High risk) A vulnerability caused by an unspecified PDF processing error in Adobe Reader 6.x and 7.x can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system 1st March 2007 Read More

Critical buffer overflow Trend Micro flaw discovered

(High risk) A critical flaw found in Trend Micro can be exploited in both Windows and Linux systems and could be used to gain access to machines, cause Denial of Service attacks and allow attackers total control of affected systems 1st March 2007 Read More

Firefox flaws could make local files externally vulnerable

(High risk) Two flaws recently discovered in Firefox could permit locally saved files to be accessed by hackers 1st March 2007 Read More

Six of one and half a dozen of the other - Microsoft's latest patches

(High risk) Microsoft issued 12 updates in its latest bulletin - six are critical and six important 1st March 2007 Read More

Nationwide fined almost £1 million over stolen laptop

(Informational) Nationwide Building Society has been fined £980,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) after its security was found to be inefficient following the theft of a corporate laptop 1st March 2007 Read More

No smoke without fire

(Informational) A total ban on smoking is fast approaching in all UK workplaces and NTA Monitor believes that this may leave companies vulnerable to a growing security threat - gaining corporate information via social techniques 1st March 2007 Read More

PayPal introduces security tokens

(Informational) PayPal is introducing security tokens in an effort to improve its security and minimise the effectiveness of phishing attacks 1st March 2007 Read More

Weak passwords help hackers

(Informational) A researcher at the University of Maryland left four Linux machines online that had weak passwords, and made some interesting discoveries 1st March 2007 Read More

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