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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

November 2008

Welcome to November'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 .

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft identifies four critical, six important and one moderate issue in October's Patch Tuesday 1st November 2008 Read More

Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory

(High risk) Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update was issued on 15th October and contains 36 security fixes for multiple Oracle products 1st November 2008 Read More

F-Secure Flaws

(High risk) A vulnerability has been reported in various F-Secure products 1st November 2008 Read More

Adobe patches clickjacking and clipboard-poisoning bugs in Flash

(High risk) Adobe Systems have patched five vulnerabilities in Flash 1st November 2008 Read More

Fraudsters website shutdown

(Informational) A website used by criminals to buy and sell credit card details and bank log-ins has been shut down after a police operation 1st November 2008 Read More

'Unbreakable' encryption unveiled

(Informational) The world's first computer network protected by 'unbreakable' quantum encryption has brought us a step closer to perfect secrecy 1st November 2008 Read More

Infamous Storm Botnet missing

(Informational) Security watchers Marshal claim the infamous Storm botnet is no more 1st November 2008 Read More

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