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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
Date: 1st May 2007
Risk: High

Oracle has issued patches for 37 vulnerabilities in its database and e-business suite as well as JD Edwards and PeopleSoft products. Still, at least it's a little better than the last time Oracle released a batch of fixes; in January it issued patches for 51 vulnerabilities.

Oracle rates its vulnerabilities by assigning a score based on its Common Vulnerability Scoring System. The highest available score is 10 and although no vulnerability has ever been rated that highly by Oracle, a core RDBMS vulnerability is rated as a 7.0, the highest score ever for an Oracle product.

The Critical Patch Update contains full vulnerability details and is available at:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuapr2007.html

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