Risk level increased for database flaws
News NGS Software gave users of the databases more than three months to fix their systems when it announced its discovery of the flaws. Some of these are more serious than others," said David Litchfield, a security researcher and co-founder of UK-based...
[December 24, 2004, 8:00]
I can't help it if my code's read, says researcher
News David Litchfield of NGS Software has acknowledged that "proof of concept" code he wrote to demonstrate a flaw in Microsoft's SQL software was probably used as a "template" for SQL Slammer, also known as Sapphire, which shut down corporate networks...
[February 5, 2003, 15:45]
New attack technique puts Oracle in crosshairs
News With a new attack technique, that's no longer true, David Litchfield, a database security expert with NGS Software, said on Thursday at the Black Hat DC event in Arlington, Virginia. NGS Software's 'Cursor Injection' paper describes a technique...
[March 2, 2007, 8:02]
Security clearinghouse under the gun
News David Litchfield is managing director of UK-based computer security company NGS Software and is now best known as the discoverer of the Microsoft SQL flaw used by the Slammer worm to ravage corporate networks last weekend.
[January 30, 2003, 8:05]
Grid computing 'vital to Europe's future'
News Meanwhile, the UK National Grid Service (NGS), the UK's e-Science Grid, gained two new members in the shape of Cardiff and Bristol universities. NGS started operating in September last year with four nodes funded by the Joint Information Systems...
[June 1, 2005, 12:55]
Microsoft to lift lid on hacker conference
News Security researcher and NGS co-founder David Litchfield gave a talk on Oracle database security at the event. Litchfield has heavily criticised Oracle in the past, after he discovered a clutch of vulnerabilities in its database software.
[March 17, 2006, 15:55]
TK Maxx 'should disclose hacking details'
News Speaking to ZDNet UK at the Black Hat 2007 security conference in Amsterdam, David Litchfield, managing director of NGS Software, who has found a number of vulnerabilities in Oracle database software, said that companies should give technical...
[March 30, 2007, 16:45]
EFF lifts curtain on new act of Sony DRM farce
News Sony said another security company, NGS Software, has tested the patch and certified that it addresses the vulnerability. The danger is associated with copy-restriction software included on some Sony discs created by a company called SunnComm...
[December 7, 2005, 8:10]
