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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

August 2006

Welcome to August'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 8 risk issues: 2 High, 2 Medium, 2 Low and 2 Informational .

Debian issues patches for Firefox flaws

(High risk) Debian has issued an update for Mozilla Firefox, fixing 13 vulnerabilities 1st August 2006 Read More

Microsoft's July 'Patch Tuesday'

(High risk) Microsoft's July security update addresses five 'critical' vulnerabilities 1st August 2006 Read More

A bug for every day in July

(Medium risk) HD Moore, who created security tool Metasploit Framework, declared that he would publish a new bug for every day in July on his blog 1st August 2006 Read More

OpenOffice security holes patched

(Medium risk) Three vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenOffice, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. 1st August 2006 Read More

Financial Trojan

(Low risk) A worrying new potential Trojan called DNSChanger.eg can redirect website visitors to fake financial sites, even if they type in the correct URL 1st August 2006 Read More

Voice phishing attacks

(Low risk) Customers of the Santa Barbara Bank & Trust in America, along with PayPal customers throughout the world, have recently been targeted by phishers who email them prompting them to call a number to verify their account details 1st August 2006 Read More

NTA's ike-scan one of the most popular network tools

(Informational) Ike scan is among the 100 favourite network tools 1st August 2006 Read More

Proof-of-concept cross-platform virus found

(Informational) A new proof-of-concept virus has come to light that creates malicious code to infect Linux and Microsoft Windows 1st August 2006 Read More

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