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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

September 2005

Welcome to September'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 12 risk issues: 6 High, 5 Medium and 1 Informational .

Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities

(High risk) 3 IE vulnerabilities have been discovered 30th September 2005 Read More

Early adopter of IPv6 faces problems

(Medium risk) Cisco IOS vulnerability could cause a DoS 30th September 2005 Read More

Microsoft Word Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in various flavours of MS Word that may allow remote code execution. 30th September 2005 Read More

Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X, which fixes more than 40 vulnerabilities. 30th September 2005 Read More

Who protects the protectors?

(High risk) A vulnerability has been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus, which potentially can be exploited to compromise a vulnerable system by causing a heap-based buffer overflow. The vulnerability has been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus Small Business Edition and in Sophos Anti-Virus versions prior to 3.96.0 and prior to 4.5.4. 30th September 2005 Read More

VERITAS Backup Exec / NetBackup Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability

(Medium risk) A locally-exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in Backup Exec. 30th September 2005 Read More

At the cusp of Zero-Day Exploit

(Informational) More than 100 companies have been hit by computer viruses that exploit a recently found loophole in Windows barely a week after the advisory was released by Microsoft. 30th September 2005 Read More

Publishing software giant publishes bug

(High risk) Adobe has released a buffer overflow flaw. An update is also made available. 30th September 2005 Read More

Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities

(High risk) Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X, which fixes more than 40 vulnerabilities. 30th September 2005 Read More

Opera belts out new version

(Medium risk) Opera software has released a new version of their popular browser, which corrects several vulnerabilities. 30th September 2005 Read More

Microsoft Patch Train

(Medium risk) The regular MS Patch Train carries six passengers this month, with three critical updates. 30th September 2005 Read More

Windows Remote Desktop Protocol DoS Vulnerability

(Medium risk) Remote Desktop Services in Windows maybe exploited to cause DoS 30th September 2005 Read More

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