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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

January 2009

Welcome to January'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 6 risk issues: 4 High and 2 Informational .

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft identifies seven critical issues and two important issues in December's Patch Tuesday 1st January 2009 Read More

Microsoft issues patch to fix Internet Explorer

(High risk) Microsoft has issued a security patch to fix a critical vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser 1st January 2009 Read More

Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3

(High risk) Vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people 1st January 2009 Read More

Vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player

(High risk) A vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Flash Player, which potentially can be exploited to compromise a user's system. 1st January 2009 Read More

Google releases browser security handbook

(Informational) Google has released a handbook for Web developers that highlights the key security features of major Web browsers 1st January 2009 Read More

PGP granted government approval

(Informational) PGP Corporation has announced that its Whole Disk Encryption has been formally approved by the CESG 1st January 2009 Read More

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