Secure your databases against opportunistic attackers
If you connect databases / servers to the internet and secure them poorly, you can count on them getting compromised quickly. According to findings by Radoslaw Zdonczyk, …
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46% of all on-prem databases are vulnerable to attack, breaches expected to grow
46% of all on-prem databases globally are vulnerable to attack, according to a research by Imperva. A five-year longitudinal study comprising nearly 27,000 scanned databases …
How to evaluate the security risk of your databases
Data has become one of our most important assets. We usually store data in databases, so knowing how to secure those is of vital importance. This article can help you quantify …
AWS S3 can be a security risk for your business
Along with the shift to the cloud and emergence of modern digital services and applications, new security concerns have emerged for organizations. More connectivity means more …
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 …
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 …
