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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

June 2009

Welcome to June'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: 3 High and 3 Informational .

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

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

Mac OS X Java calendar deserialisation code execution vulnerability

(High risk) A vulnerability has been discovered in Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system 1st June 2009 Read More

Adobe Flash Player multiple vulnerabilities

(High risk) Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Flash Player 1st June 2009 Read More

Jericho Forum and CSA push for cloud security

(Informational) The Jericho Forum, a security think tank founded by IT security professionals, has joined forces with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) 1st June 2009 Read More

90 Percent of e-mail is spam, says Symantec

(Informational) Spammers seem to be working a little bit harder these days, according to Symantec 1st June 2009 Read More

More than 80% of phishing attacks use hijacked, legitimate websites

(Informational) New research from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) shows how phishers are better covering their tracks 1st June 2009 Read More

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