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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

April 2008

Welcome to April'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, 1 Medium and 3 Informational .

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft identifies four critical flaws in March's Patch Tuesday 1st April 2008 Read More

Apple issues multiple OS X security patch

(High risk) Apple has issued a major security update for Mac OS X and Safari, which addresses 86 common vulnerability and exposure CVE entries 1st April 2008 Read More

Multiple vulnerabilities in Sun Java

(High risk) Vulnerabilities found in Sun Java may lead to DoS, bypass certain security restrictions, or to the compromise of a vulnerable system if successfully exploited 1st April 2008 Read More

Cisco releases first of biannual patch

(Medium risk) Cisco recently announced they were moving to a biannual patch cycle. Cisco has released five updates for their IOS software 1st April 2008 Read More

Demilitarised Zone most secure option for BlackBerry device

(Informational) Recent BlackBerry testing by NTA Monitor, has revealed that organisations are still not configuring the mobile devices correctly 1st April 2008 Read More

Mozilla adds 900 fixes

(Informational) Mozilla has released Firefox 3, which includes 900 bug fixes 1st April 2008 Read More

Is your laptop safe when locked?

(Informational) A company has unveiled a tool that can sniff confidential information even when a computer is locked 1st April 2008 Read More

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