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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

April 2009

Welcome to April'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: 5 High and 2 Informational .

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft identifies one critical issue and two important issues in March's Patch Tuesday 1st April 2009 Read More

Vulnerabilities in Sun Java

(High risk) Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Sun Java 1st April 2009 Read More

Security Risks in Cisco IOS

(High risk) Flaws have been reported in Cisco IOS 1st April 2009 Read More

Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Browser

(High risk) Mozilla's security team is rushing out a fix for its flagship Mozilla browser 1st April 2009 Read More

Vulnerability in PowerPoint

(High risk) A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft PowerPoint 1st April 2009 Read More

New National Fraud Reporting Centre

(Informational) The UK is embarking on a plan to develop a reporting system, the National Fraud Reporting Centre 1st April 2009 Read More

Researchers find way to detect Conficker

(Informational) Members of the Honeynet Project have discovered a way to detect machines compromised with the widespread Conficker worm 1st April 2009 Read More

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