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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

June 2006

Welcome to June'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, 4 Low and 3 Informational .

Firefox DoS flaw fixed

(High risk) Mozilla has only recently released the newest version of Firefox - version 1.5.0.3, which fixed a variety of security flaws, but new flaws have since come to light that Secunia has classified as 'highly critical'. 1st June 2006 Read More

Latest Microsoft flaws

(High risk) Microsoft's May bulletin addressed three vulnerabilities and an addition issued a week later addressed the Word exploit recently discovered 1st June 2006 Read More

Some Apple flaws affect Mac and Windows

(High risk) Apple released a security advisory on Thursday 11th May, detailing 31 flaws found in Mac OS X that affect client and server versions 1st June 2006 Read More

MasterCard and Visa

(Low risk) Over 4000 MasterCard and Visa holders have had their cards stopped after a security breach with a UK online retailer 1st June 2006 Read More

Ransom Trojan appears

(Low risk) Aggressive demands for money have been circulating, accompanied by a Trojan 1st June 2006 Read More

Voice over IP concerns

(Low risk) Concern is growing about the security of VoIP calls 1st June 2006 Read More

World Cup Trojan

(Low risk) A new Trojan has started to circulate, masquerading as a World Cup wallchart 1st June 2006 Read More

Anti-spammers get spammed

(Informational) Users of Blue Security, an anti-spam system that sends multiple opt-out messages to spammers, have been spammed 1st June 2006 Read More

Canadian train message board hacked

(Informational) A Canadian train's LED message board system was recently hacked, to the embarrassment of Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. Instead of displaying the name of the next station, it read 'Stephen Harper eats babies' 1st June 2006 Read More

Kazachstan rocker convicted

(Informational) Former Kazachstan rocker, Sergey Kazachkov, has been convicted of distributing over 4000 unique viruses through two virus-exchanging websites. 1st June 2006 Read More

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