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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

October 2007

Welcome to October'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, 2 Medium, 1 Low and 3 Informational .

Critical iTunes flaw patched

(High risk) A critical flaw in iTunes, which could permit arbitrary code execution, has been patched by Apple 1st October 2007 Read More

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft has patched one critical and three important issues in its latest Patch Tuesday, all of which could result in remote code execution or privilege elevation if successfully exploited 1st October 2007 Read More

BIND 8 has reached the end of its life

(Medium risk) A DNS cache poisoning flaw has been found in BIND 8, caused by predictable outgoing DNS query identifiers being generated 1st October 2007 Read More

Yahoo! Messenger buffer overflow flaws

(Medium risk) Boundary errors recently found in Yahoo! Messenger can result in system compromise 1st October 2007 Read More

Firefox system access vulnerability found

(Low risk) A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox that can permit system access if successfully exploited 1st October 2007 Read More

Google wants web privacy laws

(Informational) Search giant Google has recently announced that it welcomes the introduction of a basic set of global privacy laws 1st October 2007 Read More

New report says that free AV software is as good as paid-for

(Informational) A recent Which? survey has revealed that many free anti-virus programs are as good as paid-for brand solutions, such as Norton and McAfee. The survey found that the only drawback was that customer support might be inferior to paid-for solutions 1st October 2007 Read More

Online crime hits UK every 10 seconds

(Informational) A UK citizen becomes a victim of online crime every 10 seconds, according to new research 1st October 2007 Read More

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