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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

The Return of the Insider Threat

1st July 2009 When NTA started security testing twelve years ago, the main focus was on the insider threat. There were many reports with statistics showing that most security breaches were due to insiders. By contrast there was very little focus on the external threat via Internet and third-party network links. Back then many companies did not even have a firewall. Read More

Annotated tcpdump packet trace on victim system

# Server:20 -< Victim:9876 TCP Handshake

15:30:21.239401 194.217.26.147.20 > 195.102.193.28.9876: S 3843992171:3843992171(0)
15:30:21.239460 195.102.193.28.9876 > 194.217.26.147.20: S 2747175943:2747175943(0) ack 3843992172 15:30:21.399317 194.217.26.147.20 > 195.102.193.28.9876: . ack 1

# Server-< Victim Directory listing

15:30:21.429315 194.217.26.147.20 > 195.102.193.28.9876: P 1:70(69) ack 1 15:30:21.429531 195.102.193.28.9876 > 194.217.26.147.20: . ack 70

# TCP Shutdown

15:30:21.429327 194.217.26.147.20 > 195.102.193.28.9876: F 70:70(0) ack 1 15:30:21.429601 195.102.193.28.9876 > 194.217.26.147.20: . ack 71 15:30:21.670203 195.102.193.28.9876 > 194.217.26.147.20: R 1:1(0) ack 71 --