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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

December 2008

Welcome to December'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 one critical and one important issue in November's Patch Tuesday 1st December 2008 Read More

Vulnerability reported in SAP gui

(High risk) A vulnerability has been reported in SAPgui, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system 1st December 2008 Read More

Flaws found in Mozilla Firefox

(High risk) Flaws have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people 1st December 2008 Read More

Vulnerability in BitDefender Antivirus

(High risk) A vulnerability has been discovered in BitDefender Antivirus, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS 1st December 2008 Read More

Spammers are cashing in

(Informational) A study finds spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5million emails they send. 1st December 2008 Read More

New law introduced to criminalise DoS attacks

(Informational) A new law that criminalises denial-of-service (DoS) attacks has been brought into force in England and Wales. 1st December 2008 Read More

Microsoft hopes free security means less malware

(Informational) Microsoft have announced it will stop selling its consumer security service, Windows Live OneCare and re-release a new version as a free download 1st December 2008 Read More

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