92% of pharmaceutical companies have at least one exposed database
Reposify released its Pharmaceutical Industry Attack Surface Exposures Report examining the security posture of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. The report …
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Open source security, license compliance, and maintenance issues are pervasive in every industry
Synopsys released a report that examines the results of more than 1,500 audits of commercial codebases. The report highlights trends in open source usage within commercial …
Database encryption: Protecting the crown jewels
Databases are the lifeblood store of information for every organization. Without them, the organization’s efficiency, productivity and scope to prosper would be curtailed …
Dark web analysis shows high demand for hackers
Positive Technologies’ experts have analyzed the ten most active forums on the dark web, which offer services for hacking websites, buying and selling databases, and accessing …
Ubiquiti warns customers about potential data breach
American networking tech vendor Ubiquiti is asking customers to change their password because of unauthorized access to some of their information technology systems hosted by …
With database attacks on the rise, how can companies protect themselves?
Misconfigured or unsecured databases exposed on the open web are a fact of life. We hear about some of them because security researchers tell us how they discovered them, …
Database monitoring improves DevOps success for financial services orgs
The financial services sector is outperforming other industries, both in its adoption of database DevOps, and its use of monitoring to track database performance and …
MongoDB is subject to continual attacks when exposed to the internet
On average, an exposed Mongo database is breached within 13 hours of being connected to the internet. The fastest breach recorded was carried out 9 minutes after the database …
23% of leading banks had an exposed database with potential data leakage
Reposify unveiled research findings of critical asset exposures and vulnerabilities in attack surfaces of the world’s leading multinational banks. Researchers measured …
Adult live streaming site CAM4 found leaking data of millions of users
A misconfigured database containing 7 terabytes of sensitive user and company information related to adult live streaming site CAM4 has been found leaking data. The database …
Researchers develop data exchange approach with blockchain-based security features
An IT startup has developed a novel blockchain-based approach for secure linking of databases, called ChainifyDB. “Our software resembles keyhole surgery. With a barely …
Unsecured databases continue leaking millions of records
UK ISP and telecom provider Virgin Media has confirmed on Thursday that one of its unsecured marketing databases had been accessed by on at least one occasion without …
