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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 2007

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: 4 High, 2 Medium and 2 Informational .

Critical IE and Firefox flaw fixed

(High risk) A critical flaw that affected both IE and Firefox has been patched. The flaw allowed an attacker to remotely execute malicious code on a machine that runs IE but also has Firefox installed 1st August 2007 Read More

iPhone vulnerabilities disclosed

(High risk) At the end of June, Apple's iPhone was released and just 72 hours afterwards, a variety of flaws were publicised 1st August 2007 Read More

Microsoft's latest patches updated

(High risk) Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday addressed six flaws - three critical, two important and one moderate 1st August 2007 Read More

Critical buffer overflow in Panda's anti-virus program

(High risk) Panda AntiVirus has a critical buffer overflow vulnerability, which is caused due to a boundary error when parsing .EXE files 1st August 2007 Read More

XSS flaw found in Oracle's E-Business Suite

(Medium risk) An input validation vulnerability has been discovered in Oracle's E-Business Suite, which could permit Cross-Site Scripting attacks if successfully exploited 1st August 2007 Read More

Zero day flaw found in Linux-based Yoggie Pico

(Medium risk) Senior director at Linux-based Yoggie Pico plays down reports that a recent flaw discovered permits remote code execution 1st August 2007 Read More

'Horrifying' number of organisations breach data protection rules

(Informational) According to the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, a 'horrifying' number of organisations have breached data protection rules in the last year 1st August 2007 Read More

Online auction site opens for security flaws

(Informational) An online auction site has opened for security flaws, enabling researchers who discover vulnerabilities to profit from their findings 1st August 2007 Read More

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