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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

May 2007

Welcome to May'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, 2 Low and 2 Informational .

Buffer overflow vulnerability in Roxio's CinePlayer

(High risk) Roxio's CinePlayer contains a buffer overflow vulnerability, which if exploited, could permit malicious users to execute arbitrary code on affected machines 1st May 2007 Read More

Critical Linux wifi flaw found

(High risk) A critical Linux wifi flaw has been discovered that can enable attackers to gain remote control of a machine, even when it is not on a wifi network 1st May 2007 Read More

Microsoft resumes Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft has resumed Patch Tuesday, after having omitted the monthly bulletin in March. Six flaws have been fixed in the latest patch update, five of which are critical and one important 1st May 2007 Read More

Yahoo! Messenger buffer overflow flaw

(High risk) A highly critical buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Yahoo! Messenger, which if successfully exploited, could result in system compromise 1st May 2007 Read More

Oracle patches 37 vulnerabilities

(High risk) Oracle has issued patches for 37 vulnerabilities in its database and e-business suite as well as JD Edwards and PeopleSoft products 1st May 2007 Read More

Multiple Cisco wireless vulnerabilities patched

(Low risk) Cisco has released a security bulletin addressing multiple vulnerabilities found in its Wireless Control System prior to version 4.0.96.0 1st May 2007 Read More

Skype IM worm on the loose

(Low risk) The Pykse-A worm is spreading through Skype IM sessions, masquerading as a link to an adult website 1st May 2007 Read More

MP has keylogger installed by six year old

(Informational) Guildford MP Anne Milton agreed to leave her computer unattended for 60 seconds as part of a test of House of Commons' IT security by the BBC's Inside Out programme. It took a six year old girl just 15 seconds to install a keylogger onto the PC 1st May 2007 Read More

WEP encryption cracked in three seconds

(Informational) It has been reported that 128-bit WEP encryption can now be cracked in just three seconds 1st May 2007 Read More

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