MySQL 0-day could lead to total system compromise
Researcher Dawid Golunski has discovered multiple severe vulnerabilities affecting the popular open source database MySQL and its forks (e.g. MariaDB, Percona). One of these …
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Mail.ru, Funcom gaming forums hacked, user databases stolen
Vulnerabilities in older versions of the popular vBulletin Internet forum software are being exploited left and right, and data of millions of forum users is being pilfered …
Ubuntu Forums hacked again, 2 million users exposed
Canonical’s Ubuntu Forums have been hacked, and the attacker has managed to access and download part of the Forums database, containing usernames, email addresses and …
World-Check crime and terror database exposed online
Security researcher Chris Vickery, who has become well-known for unearthing databases that should not be accessible via the Internet but are, has found another one that …
154 million US voter records exposed following hack
MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered yet another database containing voter profiles of US citizens, accessible to anyone who stumbled upon it or knew …
Most organizations still lack visibility into database assets
Only 19 percent of organizations have what the organization considers to be “excellent” visibility into their data and database assets, according to Osterman …
Lack of backup tech hinders next-generation database adoption
While there is immediate and increasing interest in evolving infrastructure to support distributed, scale-out databases and cloud databases, a lack of robust backup and …
US passport and visa database open to intrusion?
The Consular Consolidated Database (CCD), which contains over 290 million passport-related records, 184 million visa records, and 25 million records on US citizens living …
MariaDB Enterprise: Security at every level in the database
MariaDB announced MariaDB Enterprise Spring 2016. New capabilities defend data against application and network-level attacks, support faster development of high-performance …
Sensitive child profiles, private messages exposed online
Security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered another database containing sensitive user data exposed online (i.e. accessible via Internet). Leveraging Shodan, he unearthed …
