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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

March 2006

Welcome to March'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 10 risk issues: 3 High, 2 Medium, 2 Low and 3 Informational .

Multiple vulnerabilities are discovered by Protos test suite

(High risk) Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in IKEv1, the protocol used by many products worldwide 3rd March 2006 Read More

82 unwanted security bugs

(Medium risk) Updates are available for multiple Oracle products, covering a total of 82 security risks 4th March 2006 Read More

Maliciously creative

(Low risk) Local users can bypass security restrictions to remove files 1st March 2006 Read More

How to crash Firefox till the end of history

(High risk) On 1st February, Mozilla issued Firefox 1.5 updates, classifying the need to update to version 1.5.0.1 as "highly critical" 1st March 2006 Read More

Microsoft's February update addresses 9 issues

(High risk) Microsoft's most recent monthly update was issued on 14th February and covered 7 vulnerabilities, 2 of which were deemed to be highly critical 1st March 2006 Read More

Sometimes there's a lot more to 'I love you' than meets the eye

(Low risk) Malicious Valentine's e-cards and fake dating websites surfaced days before Valentine's Day 1st March 2006 Read More

A lot more phish than you think

(Informational) The Anti-Phishing Working Group has issued its Phishing Activity Trends Report 2005 10th March 2006 Read More

Goldilocks burglar bears his identity by going online

(Informational) A 24-year-old drug abuse centre escapee broke into 5 properties in February and made himself at home 9th March 2006 Read More

IE Beta anyone?

(Informational) IE7 Beta is available but is experiencing mixed reactions 5th March 2006 Read More

IBM Notes 6ix flaws

(Medium risk) Six highly critical Lotus Notes vulnerabilities have been fixed by IBM, all of which related to file attachments 31st March 2006 Read More

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