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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

October 2007

Welcome to October'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, 1 Low and 3 Informational .

Critical iTunes flaw patched

(High risk) A critical flaw in iTunes, which could permit arbitrary code execution, has been patched by Apple 1st October 2007 Read More

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft has patched one critical and three important issues in its latest Patch Tuesday, all of which could result in remote code execution or privilege elevation if successfully exploited 1st October 2007 Read More

BIND 8 has reached the end of its life

(Medium risk) A DNS cache poisoning flaw has been found in BIND 8, caused by predictable outgoing DNS query identifiers being generated 1st October 2007 Read More

Yahoo! Messenger buffer overflow flaws

(Medium risk) Boundary errors recently found in Yahoo! Messenger can result in system compromise 1st October 2007 Read More

Firefox system access vulnerability found

(Low risk) A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox that can permit system access if successfully exploited 1st October 2007 Read More

Google wants web privacy laws

(Informational) Search giant Google has recently announced that it welcomes the introduction of a basic set of global privacy laws 1st October 2007 Read More

New report says that free AV software is as good as paid-for

(Informational) A recent Which? survey has revealed that many free anti-virus programs are as good as paid-for brand solutions, such as Norton and McAfee. The survey found that the only drawback was that customer support might be inferior to paid-for solutions 1st October 2007 Read More

Online crime hits UK every 10 seconds

(Informational) A UK citizen becomes a victim of online crime every 10 seconds, according to new research 1st October 2007 Read More

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