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IRM Release a New Security Advisory

Please click here for more details on the vulnerability found in the RedDot Content Management System.

IRM In The News

How safe is online shopping? The Guardian asks IRM's Michael Owen for his thoughts on the subject. [read more...]

IRM In The News

IRM's Chief Technical Officer, Phil Huggins, talks compliance with silicon.com. [read more...]

IRM is awarded Qualified Forensics Investigator (QFI) status by MasterCard

IRM In The News

The Register talks to IRM Senior Consultant Matthew Lewis about his biometric security research and Black Hat presentation. [read more...]

IRM In The News

Senior Consultant Matthew Lewis speaks to IT security website darkreading.com about his Black Hat presentation on the lack of security around biometric systems. You can read the article here and also access Matthew's Black Hat presentation here. If you have questions about the security of your biometric system, please contact us.

IRM In The News

IRM consultant John Yeo comments on the data breach at the American supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers Company. [read more...]

IRM In The News

IT website Heise Online cites IRM's ATM research in one of their latest articles. [read more...]

IRM In The News

Senior Consultant Gyan Chawdhary speaks to silicon.com about the security threats facing ATM machines. [read more...]

IRM Events

Matthew Lewis, one of IRM's Senior Consultants, will be presenting at this year's Black Hat Europe. Matthew will be giving a talk regarding his research into biometric systems, specifically his work on a 'Biologger' or biometric keylogger that could be used to attack a biometric system. For more information please click here 

IT Security and the Curse of Complacency

New IRM White Paper highlights common assumptions and misconceptions that may lead to weaknesses in any enterprise. [read more...] 

IRM Release New Vendor Alerts

IRM have discovered six remote vulnerabilities in the IBM messaging technology - WebSphere MQ 6.0. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, could potentially cause major disruption to vital connections between different Enterprise business applications. [read more...]  

IRM In The News

Phil Huggins, IRM's Chief Technical Officer, speaks to ZDNet UK highlighting the dangers of bringing consumer technology into the workplace [read more...]

IRM In The News

The Register highlights the TIBCO software vulnerabilites discovered by IRM [read more...] 

IRM Release New Vendor Alerts

IRM have discovered six critical vulnerabilities in TIBCO SmartPGM FX. Some of these vulnerabilities could potentially result in an attacker gaining remote administrative control of the server on which SmartPGM is running and therefore, also allow access to any data stored on or being communicated by the server. Please follow the link below for further information. [read more...]

IRM Demonstrates Multiple Cisco IOS Exploitation Techniques

In a collaborative research project with Cisco, IRM have discovered several serious vulnerabilities and developed three new techniques to potentially exploit Cisco networking devices [read more...]

Embedded Systems Security

IRM is pleased to announce a new page on our website which details IRM's research on embedded systems, specifically our research relating to Cisco IOS. On this page you can view videos of three IOS shellcode techniques being demonstrated [read more...]

High-Level Reverse Engineering

The latest IRM White Paper presents a framework for high-level reverse engineering using a methodology of exisitng tools and techniques. [read more...]

IRM Release New Vendor Alerts

IRM's ongoing research into the security of Cisco IOS has resulted in the discovery of security vulnerabilities, which are currently being addressed by Cisco. Please follow the link below to view the current Vendor Alerts related to IRM's Cisco IOS research. [read more...]

IRM In The News

Chief Technical Officer, Phil Huggins, discusses IT security in the Pharmaceutical sector with Infosecurity Magazine [read more...]

Biologger - A Biometric Keylogger

New IRM White Paper experiments with manipulating biometric data using a biometric keylogger to highlight possible attacks against a biometric system. [read more...] 

IRM Events

Dr. Yiannis Pavlosoglou, Security Project Manager at IRM, will be speaking at the OWASP NJ/NY local chapter's September 6 meeting in New York City, which is taking place in conjunction with Global Security Week.

Yiannis will be presenting a talk about JBroFuzz, a fuzzing tool that he created. He will also explain fuzzing in general and how it can be used to minimize the time needed to discover application and network protocol vulnerabilities. Please visit the OWASP NY/NJ chapter homepage for more deatils.

IRM Has Become a QFI

IRM is now a Qualified Forensics Investigator as certified by VISA Europe [read more...]

IRM's Latest Security Review for Adobe

IRM has now completed work on the company's most recent engagement with Adobe. IRM was contracted to perform a comprehensive security review of ColdFusion 8. Please visit the link below to read the product briefing document. [read more at the Adobe website...]

 

Security Testing Enterprise Messaging Systems

New IRM White Paper takes a look at various potential security flaws in messaging systems and provides recommendations on how to avoid them [read more...]

IRM In The News

Visit the Media Centre of this website to read the latest articles penned by IRM regarding PCI DSS and new security risks emerging in today's interconnected business environment [read more...]

IOS Exploitation Techniques

New IRM White Paper discusses research regarding code execution exploitation on Cisco IOS [read more...]

IRM Comments on the Computer Weekly PCI Article of 12 June 2007

Everyday Password Cracking

New IRM White Paper reviews various methods and approaches to password cracking [read more...]

IRM is now a PABP

IRM is now a VISA Europe Payment Application Best Practice certified company [read more...]

IRM In The News

SC Magazine speaks to IRM's CEO Charles White about risk management consulting versus product vendors [read more...]

IRM Events

IRM's Head of Risk, Colin Dixon, will speak about PCI DSS at the Retail Fraud Conference 2007 as part of the Allpoint Information Security Workshop [read more...]

The PCI DSS Appendix B: Compensating Controls

New IRM White Paper reviews PCI DSS requirements and possible solutions [read more...]

The Importance of Threat Modelling

New IRM White Paper discusses Threat Modelling, an important tool for application developers [read more...]

IRM In The News

FT.com speaks to Steve Darrall about Laptop encryption [read more...]

Latest News

IRM has become a PCI DSS QSA [read more...]

IRM In The News

Infosecurity Magazine asks Phil Huggins, Chief Technical Officer at IRM, about end point security [read more...]

IRM In The News

IRM speaks with computerweekly.com regarding penetration tests [read more...]

The Art of Fuzzing

IRM-developed tool included on Linux BackTrack [read more...]

Biometrics Demystified

New IRM whitepaper dispells various myths surrounding biometrics [read more...]

Sky News Interview

Steve Darrall, Senior Security Consultant at IRM, speaks with Sky News regarding the security of personal data online [read more...]

ATM Security Vulnerabilities

Andy Davis, IRM's Chief Research Officer presents "ATM Security Vulnerabilities" at the ATM Industry Association SEC 06 conference. Although not available for general public release, requests from the ATM industry for a copy of the presentation should be directed to research@irmplc.com

Website Relaunch

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