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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

Advisories

Cisco VPN Concentrator IKE resource exhaustion DoS

(Medium risk) NTA Monitor has discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator, IOS software, PIX firewall and ASA appliance products. 26th July 2006 Read More

Avaya VPNRemote VPN Client Password Disclosure Issue

(Medium risk) NTA Monitor has discovered a password disclosure issue in the Avaya VPNRemote VPN client, VPNRemote stores all user credentials (username and password) in clear-text in the process memory. 23rd November 2005 Read More

Sawmill Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

(Medium risk) A vulnerability has been discovered in the Sawmill web server by NTA Monitor in the course of performing a test for a customer. 8th September 2005 Read More

Google Talk Beta Messenger Client Password Disclosure Issue Summary

(Medium risk) NTA Monitor have discovered a password disclosure issue in the Google Talk Windows Messenger Client 7th August 2005 Read More

Juniper Netscreen VPN Username Enumeration Vulnerability

(Medium risk) NTA Monitor has discovered a VPN username enumeration vulnerability in the Juniper Netscreen integrated Firewall/VPN products while performing a VPN security test for a customer 1st August 2005 Read More

PHP-Fusion messages.php SQL Injection Vulnerability

(Medium risk) NTA Monitor discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability in the PHPFusion Content Management System 25th July 2005 Read More

Cisco VPN Concentrator Groupname Enumeration Vulnerability

(Medium risk) NTA Monitor has discovered a groupname enumeration vulnerability in the Cisco VPN 3000 series concentrator products while performing a VPN security test for a customer 8th June 2005 Read More

Nortel VPN Router Malformed Packet DoS Vulnerability

(Medium risk) NTA Monitor have discovered a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in the Nortel VPN Router products (which were previously known as Nortel Contivity) while performing a VPN security test for a customer. 3rd May 2005 Read More

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