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60% of UK website tests revealed Internet encryption and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

10th April 2008 60% of web application tests performed for UK organisations showed that their websites contain weak encryption or cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities Read More

Demilitarised Zone most secure option for BlackBerry device

28th February 2008 Recent BlackBerry testing by IT security consultancy, NTA Monitor, has revealed that organisations are still not configuring these mobile devices correctly Read More

Retailers should put security top of their Christmas list

13th November 2007 With British consumers spending more than £6.6 billion online in the last two months of last year, the 2007 festive season is set to be one of great cheer for online retailers Read More

Businesses warned not to have skeletons in cupboards

13th November 2007 For many organisations, the festive season is an opportunity to heave a corporate sigh of relief and enjoy the brief respite in frenetic business activity as countless people all over the world, go home to celebrate Christmas 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.