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Living with threats

1st August 2010 Back in 2004, Bill Gates predicted that spam would be a thing of the past within two years. As we all know now, and quite a lot of people predicted at the time, far from being a solved problem, the volume of spam has continued to increase. Read More

Web application security goes from bad to worse in many sectors

27th July 2010 NTA Monitor's 2010 Annual Web Application Security Report analysed the data gathered from web application security tests performed for a wide range of industry sectors over a 12-month period... Read More

IT Managers get to grips with Internet security issues

4th May 2010 According to NTA Monitor's 2010 Annual Security Report, the average number of Internet security vulnerabilities afflicting organisations has fallen.. Read More

Responsible Patching

1st January 2010 Microsoft's response to the "zero day" exploit that was used in the cyber attacks against Google shows that software vendors still have a lot to learn when it comes to responding to vulnerabilities. Read More

NTA's tools

NTA has developed a variety of tools that website visitors are welcome to download.

Arp-scan

The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is the method for finding a host's hardware address when only its IP address is known. This tool runs on Linux and allows host detection and fingerprinting using the ARP protocol.

Ike-scan

Ike-scan was developed by NTA's Technical Director Roy Hills and released in 2003 under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). Ike-scan exploits transport characteristics in the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) service, the mechanism used by VPNs to establish a connection between a server and a remote client. It scans IP addresses for VPN servers by sending a specially crafted IKE packet to each host within a network.

Apache Denial of Service tester

NTA has developed a simple tool to enable you to test your servers' reaction to simple DoS attacks.

Downtime calculator

This useful tool can calculate the approximate cost of downtime experienced.