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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

February 2009

Welcome to February'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 and 4 Informational .

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft identifies one critical issue in January's Patch Tuesday 1st February 2009 Read More

Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory

(High risk) Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update was issued on the 17th January and contains 41 security fixes for multiple Oracle products 1st February 2009 Read More

Group attacks flaw in MD5 hashing

(Informational) An international group of security researchers are urging browser makers to drop support for digital signatures based on MD5 hashing 1st February 2009 Read More

Clock ticking on worm attack code

(Informational) Experts are warning that hackers have yet to activate the payload of the cornficker virus 1st February 2009 Read More

Dangerous coding errors revealed

(Informational) The US National Security Agency has helped put together a list of the world's most dangerous coding mistakes 1st February 2009 Read More

BlackBerry Products PDF Distiller Multiple Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Vulnerabilities have been reported in BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Unite! 1st February 2009 Read More

Job website hit by major breach

(Informational) Hackers are believed to have stolen the personal details of millions of people using the online job site Monster 1st February 2009 Read More

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