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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

September 2007

Welcome to September'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: 2 High, 1 Medium, 1 Low and 4 Informational .

Highly critical Symantec flaws found

(High risk) Two flaws have been found in a variety of Symantec programs, which can permit malicious attackers to gain system access 3rd September 2007 Read More

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Six critical and three important issues have been patched in the latest Microsoft advisory, fixing flaws in programs including Internet Explorer and Excel 3rd September 2007 Read More

Buffer overflow flaws in HP OpenView products

(Medium risk) Vulnerabilities have been found in various HP OpenView programs, which can enable malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system 3rd September 2007 Read More

NTA Monitor finds Symantec VPN flaw

(Low risk) NTA Monitor has discovered a username enumeration vulnerability in Symantec's Enterprise Firewall. When Symantec's Enterprise Firewall is configured for remote access (client-to-gateway) VPN using pre-shared key (PSK) authentication, it responds differently to valid and invalid usernames 3rd September 2007 Read More

House of Lords demands security improvements

(Informational) A report issued by the House of Lords has made recommendations such as introducing a central web-based e-crime reporting system and the introduction of security breach notification laws, in a bid to improve Internet security 3rd September 2007 Read More

Internet bankers not concerned about fraud

(Informational) Lloyds TSB has recently published results of a survey it recently conducted, which reveals that many people using Internet banking aren't bothered about fraud 3rd September 2007 Read More

Leak of Facebook's code amplifies security concerns

(Informational) As some of Facebook's code is published online, concerns are raised about the security of social networking websites 3rd September 2007 Read More

UN website targeted by hackers

(Informational) The UN's website has been defaced by hackers, forcing officials to take some pages offline 3rd September 2007 Read More

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