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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 2008

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 7 risk issues: 3 High and 4 Informational .

Multiple vulnerabilities found in Mozilla Thunderbird

(High risk) Multiple flaws have been reported in Mozilla Thunderbird which if successfully exploited may lead to a number of well known security risks 3rd March 2008 Read More

Vulnerabilities found in VMware virtualization products

(High risk) Two vulnerabilities found in VMware software may be used to run multiple versions of an operating system on a single computer 3rd March 2008 Read More

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft indentifies six critical and five important flaws in February's Patch Tuesday 3rd March 2008 Read More

Disk encryption can still be hacked

(Informational) A team including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has discovered a security flaw in everyday disk encryption technologies 3rd March 2008 Read More

Adobe releases Air

(Informational) Adobe Air allows users to access certain online applications offline 3rd March 2008 Read More

If stolen, this laptop will self-destruct...

(Informational) A British company has invented new software which will help try and prevent the rise in laptop crime 3rd March 2008 Read More

The number of malicious programs online reaches an all time high

(Informational) Various security firms have reported that there were five times as many different malicious programs in circulation in 2007 compared with 2006 3rd March 2008 Read More

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