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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

August 2007

Welcome to August'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, 2 Medium and 2 Informational .

Critical IE and Firefox flaw fixed

(High risk) A critical flaw that affected both IE and Firefox has been patched. The flaw allowed an attacker to remotely execute malicious code on a machine that runs IE but also has Firefox installed 1st August 2007 Read More

iPhone vulnerabilities disclosed

(High risk) At the end of June, Apple's iPhone was released and just 72 hours afterwards, a variety of flaws were publicised 1st August 2007 Read More

Microsoft's latest patches updated

(High risk) Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday addressed six flaws - three critical, two important and one moderate 1st August 2007 Read More

Critical buffer overflow in Panda's anti-virus program

(High risk) Panda AntiVirus has a critical buffer overflow vulnerability, which is caused due to a boundary error when parsing .EXE files 1st August 2007 Read More

XSS flaw found in Oracle's E-Business Suite

(Medium risk) An input validation vulnerability has been discovered in Oracle's E-Business Suite, which could permit Cross-Site Scripting attacks if successfully exploited 1st August 2007 Read More

Zero day flaw found in Linux-based Yoggie Pico

(Medium risk) Senior director at Linux-based Yoggie Pico plays down reports that a recent flaw discovered permits remote code execution 1st August 2007 Read More

'Horrifying' number of organisations breach data protection rules

(Informational) According to the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, a 'horrifying' number of organisations have breached data protection rules in the last year 1st August 2007 Read More

Online auction site opens for security flaws

(Informational) An online auction site has opened for security flaws, enabling researchers who discover vulnerabilities to profit from their findings 1st August 2007 Read More

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