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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

March 2008

Welcome to March'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: 3 High and 4 Informational .

Multiple vulnerabilities found in Mozilla Thunderbird

(High risk) Multiple flaws have been reported in Mozilla Thunderbird which if successfully exploited may lead to a number of well known security risks 3rd March 2008 Read More

Vulnerabilities found in VMware virtualization products

(High risk) Two vulnerabilities found in VMware software may be used to run multiple versions of an operating system on a single computer 3rd March 2008 Read More

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft indentifies six critical and five important flaws in February's Patch Tuesday 3rd March 2008 Read More

Disk encryption can still be hacked

(Informational) A team including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has discovered a security flaw in everyday disk encryption technologies 3rd March 2008 Read More

Adobe releases Air

(Informational) Adobe Air allows users to access certain online applications offline 3rd March 2008 Read More

If stolen, this laptop will self-destruct...

(Informational) A British company has invented new software which will help try and prevent the rise in laptop crime 3rd March 2008 Read More

The number of malicious programs online reaches an all time high

(Informational) Various security firms have reported that there were five times as many different malicious programs in circulation in 2007 compared with 2006 3rd March 2008 Read More

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