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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

January 2009

Welcome to January'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 6 risk issues: 4 High and 2 Informational .

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft identifies seven critical issues and two important issues in December's Patch Tuesday 1st January 2009 Read More

Microsoft issues patch to fix Internet Explorer

(High risk) Microsoft has issued a security patch to fix a critical vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser 1st January 2009 Read More

Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3

(High risk) Vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people 1st January 2009 Read More

Vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player

(High risk) A vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Flash Player, which potentially can be exploited to compromise a user's system. 1st January 2009 Read More

Google releases browser security handbook

(Informational) Google has released a handbook for Web developers that highlights the key security features of major Web browsers 1st January 2009 Read More

PGP granted government approval

(Informational) PGP Corporation has announced that its Whole Disk Encryption has been formally approved by the CESG 1st January 2009 Read More

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