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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

May 2009

Welcome to May'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: 4 High and 3 Informational .

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

(High risk) Microsoft identifies five critical issues, two important issues and one moderate issue in April's Patch Tuesday 1st May 2009 Read More

Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory

(High risk) Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update was issued on the 14th April and contains 43 security fixes for multiple Oracle products 1st May 2009 Read More

Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

(High risk) Vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox which can be exploited to disclose potentially sensitive information 1st May 2009 Read More

Google fixes severe security vulnerability in Chrome Browser

(High risk) Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser to fix a high severity security problem 1st May 2009 Read More

President Obama to get Secure BlackBerry

(Informational) President Obama is due to receive a high-security BlackBerry 1st May 2009 Read More

Hackers take over PIN Numbers

(Informational) Hackers take over PIN numbers via banking vulnerabilities to leave us all exposed to fraud 1st May 2009 Read More

Celebrity Viruses Improve Security

(Informational) Every so often a computer virus becomes more than just a novelty for anti-virus researchers 1st May 2009 Read More

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