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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 2008

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 7 risk issues: 4 High, 1 Medium and 2 Informational .

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft identifies four critical issues in September's Patch Tuesday. 1st October 2008 Read More

Apple Patches

(Medium risk) Apple has released three updates, closing at least 18 security holes. 1st October 2008 Read More

Firefox Update

(High risk) Mozilla has published a new version of its Firefox web browser that fixes five security vulnerabilities 1st October 2008 Read More

Cisco IOS Multiple Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Vulnerabilities have been reported in Cisco IOS. 1st October 2008 Read More

iPhone update closes critical security holes

(High risk) Firmware update 2.1 for Apple's iPhone closes a number of security holes. 1st October 2008 Read More

Hackers infultrate Sarah Palin's email

(Informational) Hackers have broken into the e-mail of the US Republican vice-presidential candidate. 1st October 2008 Read More

Cybersquatting

(Informational) Internet addresses corresponding to recent bank mergers are already being hoarded and sold online. 1st October 2008 Read More

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