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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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Whitepapers
Common VPN Security Flaws
Security flaws found during the last three years of security testing VPN servers
25th January 2005
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UDP Backoff Whitepaper
Techniques to identify IPsec VPN systems running IKE
17th January 2003
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