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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

May 2009

Welcome to May'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 five critical issues, two important issues and one moderate issue in April's Patch Tuesday 1st May 2009 Read More

Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory

(High risk) Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update was issued on the 14th April and contains 43 security fixes for multiple Oracle products 1st May 2009 Read More

Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

(High risk) Vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox which can be exploited to disclose potentially sensitive information 1st May 2009 Read More

Google fixes severe security vulnerability in Chrome Browser

(High risk) Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser to fix a high severity security problem 1st May 2009 Read More

President Obama to get Secure BlackBerry

(Informational) President Obama is due to receive a high-security BlackBerry 1st May 2009 Read More

Hackers take over PIN Numbers

(Informational) Hackers take over PIN numbers via banking vulnerabilities to leave us all exposed to fraud 1st May 2009 Read More

Celebrity Viruses Improve Security

(Informational) Every so often a computer virus becomes more than just a novelty for anti-virus researchers 1st May 2009 Read More

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