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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 2007

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 8 risk issues: 4 High and 4 Informational .

Adobe heap corruption flaw 'critical'

(High risk) A vulnerability caused by an unspecified PDF processing error in Adobe Reader 6.x and 7.x can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system 1st March 2007 Read More

Critical buffer overflow Trend Micro flaw discovered

(High risk) A critical flaw found in Trend Micro can be exploited in both Windows and Linux systems and could be used to gain access to machines, cause Denial of Service attacks and allow attackers total control of affected systems 1st March 2007 Read More

Firefox flaws could make local files externally vulnerable

(High risk) Two flaws recently discovered in Firefox could permit locally saved files to be accessed by hackers 1st March 2007 Read More

Six of one and half a dozen of the other - Microsoft's latest patches

(High risk) Microsoft issued 12 updates in its latest bulletin - six are critical and six important 1st March 2007 Read More

Nationwide fined almost £1 million over stolen laptop

(Informational) Nationwide Building Society has been fined £980,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) after its security was found to be inefficient following the theft of a corporate laptop 1st March 2007 Read More

No smoke without fire

(Informational) A total ban on smoking is fast approaching in all UK workplaces and NTA Monitor believes that this may leave companies vulnerable to a growing security threat - gaining corporate information via social techniques 1st March 2007 Read More

PayPal introduces security tokens

(Informational) PayPal is introducing security tokens in an effort to improve its security and minimise the effectiveness of phishing attacks 1st March 2007 Read More

Weak passwords help hackers

(Informational) A researcher at the University of Maryland left four Linux machines online that had weak passwords, and made some interesting discoveries 1st March 2007 Read More

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