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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

April 2007

Welcome to April'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 9 risk issues: 5 High, 1 Medium and 3 Informational .

Apple patches multiple OS X vulnerabilities

(High risk) Apple has issued a security update to patch multiple security vulnerabilities, many of which exist in products that are shipped with OS X 2nd April 2007 Read More

Apple QuickTime vulnerabilities

(High risk) Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in QuickTime that can permit an attacker to compromise a user's system 2nd April 2007 Read More

Microsoft skipped March Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft missed out March's Patch Tuesday, even though numerous Microsoft flaws remain unpatched 2nd April 2007 Read More

Mozilla issues security updates

(High risk) Mozilla has issued a security update addressing a variety of vulnerabilities that can result in Cross-Site Scripting, spoofing and system access 2nd April 2007 Read More

New WordPress flaw found

(High risk) At the beginning of March, it was discovered that an attacker had modified the download file of the latest version of blogging software WordPress 2nd April 2007 Read More

Trend Micro DoS flaw discovered

(Medium risk) A vulnerability has been found in multiple Trend Micro products that if successfully exploited, could permit attackers to launch a Denial of Service (DoS) attack 2nd April 2007 Read More

Epassport cloned whilst still in its delivery envelope

(Informational) An ePassport has been successfully cloned before being removed from its delivery envelope 2nd April 2007 Read More

Over 45 million TK Maxx customers' credit card details stolen

(Informational) TJX, the US parent company of TK Maxx, has had over 45 million of its customers' credit and debit card details stolen 2nd April 2007 Read More

NTA's Annual Web Application Security Report 2007 is released

(Informational) NTA's Annual Web Application Security Report 2007 has discovered that 90% of UK organisations' websites are insecure 2nd April 2007 Read More

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