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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

January 2008

Welcome to January'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 7 risk issues: 4 High and 3 Informational .

Apple patches QuickTime bug

(High risk) Apple has patched a QuickTime security flaw that was first identified in November 2007 2nd January 2008 Read More

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft patches three critical and four important issues in December's Patch Tuesday 2nd January 2008 Read More

Vulnerability discovered in Skype

(High risk) A vulnerability identified in Skype may compromise a user's system if exploited by malicious people 2nd January 2008 Read More

OpenOffice releases update

(High risk) A flaw reported in OpenOffice may be exploited by malicious people in order to compromise a user's system 2nd January 2008 Read More

Ask questions user privacy

(Informational) Search engine Ask has launched AskEraser, which allows users to immediately delete search queries usually stored on the servers 2nd January 2008 Read More

1.09pm - the minute thousands were spent

(Informational) Internet Christmas shoppers don't seem to have been put off by the growing concern of online fraud 2nd January 2008 Read More

Share your insight with Knol

(Informational) Google has announced Knol, a website that will rival Wikipedia, the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet 2nd January 2008 Read More

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