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The winner of the second annual UK Cyber Security Challenge, supported by 7Safe education services, part of PA Consulting Group, has been awarded a place on 7Safe’s leading information security certification course. PA’s Alan Phillips, IT security and risk expert presented the award to Cambridge University student Jonathan Millican, who was crowned the winne […]
On 13th March 2012, Microsoft released a security patch for the MS12-020 vulnerability relating to the remote desktop protocol (RDP). The identified vulnerability allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on systems running vulnerable RDP services over the network which could lead to denial of service attacks, or worse, to loss of sensitive data stored […]
Cyber business is considered a main engine for future economic growth and the opportunity to use related technologies, such as the cloud, to reduce costs is a key part of the agenda for many organisations. Yet cyber crime is also increasing as are the indications that it is still not being treated seriously or is […]
On 14 March, PA Consulting Group’s Sumit Siddharth will be speaking at the world’s premier IT security event, Black Hat Europe 2012, focusing on the vulnerabilities associated with the programming language, XPATH 2.0. To schedule a meeting with Sumit during the conference, please contact us now. Sumit is a specialist in application and database security, [.. […]
PA Consulting Group is pleased to announce that it has acquired 7Safe Ltd, a leading cyber security consultancy head-quartered in Cambridge. 7Safe’s expertise in security risk assessment, computer forensics, eDiscovery and education complements PA’s own long-established cyber security, risk and resilience capability, which has been in high demand in securing […]
An alarming increase in cyber attacks have recently been seen in the UK, many incidents of which have been widely reported in the media. The issue has naturally drawn attention to the urgency for companies to improve their security measures. Ironically, the UK has seen a huge drop in the number of pupils undertaking computing […]
Head of Penetration Testing at 7safe Sumit Sidharth (Sid), was recently interviewed by the Pentest Magazine to provide insights into his specialism in application and database security. Speaking from over seven years of successful experience within the IT Security Industry, ‘Sid’ talks candidly about his contributions towards a number of white-papers, articl […]
A computer science student from Lancaster University has become the UK winner of the digital forensics challenge, a global competition designed and hosted by the US Department of Defense. Christopher Richardson (AKA Ikarus) came first in the UK and ninth internationally among 1,791 competitors from 52 countries. The challenge was designed to test the ability […]
The first sequel of this paper was released in 2010 and it discussed the privileges needed to execute OS code when exploiting a SQL Injection in a web application which has an Oracle back-end. This paper examines new techniques to execute multiple statements via SQL Injection. No special privileges are needed to use these techniques […]
Server Hardening, sometimes referred to as a build review, is a relatively new service offered by 7Safe. This service is designed to assist IT management and security teams with the task of creating and adhering to defined policies or rule sets, whilst still providing useable systems. Many modern operating systems have advanced security measures and […]