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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

November 2009

Welcome to November'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 eight critical issues and five important issues in October's Patch Tuesday 1st November 2009 Read More

Oracle fixes 38 flaws, four earn highest severity rating

(High risk) Oracle delivered patches to correct 38 vulnerabilities, including three that received the highest severity rating possible 1st November 2009 Read More

Data losses in Snow Leopard bug

(High risk) Users of the new Apple operating system Snow Leopard are experiencing massive data losses 1st November 2009 Read More

Hackers target Guardian jobs site

(Informational) Computer hackers have targeted the job section of the Guardian newspaper website 1st November 2009 Read More

Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox 1st November 2009 Read More

New BBC investigation reveals insecurity of publicly available WiFi

(Informational) A BBC investigation has revealed that the UK's top three WiFi providers are all susceptible to attack 1st November 2009 Read More

Small & medium firms cut security budgets

(Informational) The majority of small and medium businesses have frozen spending on security, despite an increase in perceived threats 1st November 2009 Read More

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