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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

Will IE6 be the next NT4?

1st October 2009 All penetration testers will remember the long tail of Windows NT 4.0, and how this operating system continued to be used long past the point when security updates stopped at the end of 2004. For many years the presence of an unpatchable NT4 server was a common issue in a penetration test report, and it is only now, almost five years after security support ended, that finding an NT4 system on a network is becoming a rare event. Read More

One in four web applications susceptible to high risk security flaws

7th September 2009 NTA Monitor has reported a 10% increase in the total number of web applications found to have at least one high-risk security issue... Read More

Organisations facing a changing threat landscape

20th July 2009 According to NTA Monitor's 2009 Annual Security Report, the average number of Internet security vulnerabilities is on the rise... Read More

August 2009

Welcome to August'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 four critical issues, three important issues and one moderate issue in July's Patch Tuesday 1st August 2009 Read More

Oracle Critical Patch Update

(High risk) Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update was issued in July and contains 30 new security fixes for multiple Oracle products 1st August 2009 Read More

Adobe Flaws

(High risk) An extremely critical vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 1st August 2009 Read More

Cisco Security

(High risk) Recent versions of Cisco IOS Software contain two remote denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities 1st August 2009 Read More

Risk to iPhone

(Informational) According to security researchers, hackers could take over your iPhone 1st August 2009 Read More

MI5 plugs website flaw

(Informational) MI5 has closed up a flaw on its website that could have opened up visitors to malicious attacks 1st August 2009 Read More

Typo blamed for massive IE security fail

(Informational) One small typo in Microsoft's code caused the security vulnerability that prompted Microsoft to release an out of sequence patch 1st August 2009 Read More

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