database security
Making password databases impossible to steal
A new technology, called Blind Hashing, that prevents offline password attacks by making databases impossible to steal, has been introduced at RSA Conference 2015 by start-up …
Tens of thousands MongoDB databases easily accessible from the Internet
A group of students from Saarland University’s Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA) have discovered tens of thousands MongoDB databases accessible …
vBulletin vulnerable to SQL injection
A Romanian hacking community has discovered and responsibly reported a critical SQL injection vulnerability found in the latest version (5.1.2) of the popular web forum …
Oracle delivers 113 updates
Oracle’s Quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) is never a minor event. In April we saw 104 security issues addressed, in January it was 144. This time around we are …
Whatsapp flaw could reveal all your past conversations
A new Whatsapp flaw that allows any other applications on your Android device to exfiltrate and decrypt past Whatsapp conversations has been discovered and revealed by …
Cyber crooks will go after medical records next
As security firms and law enforcement agencies continue to cooperate and successfully take down botnets, cyber crooks will be forced to look for new and more lucrative …
University of Maryland sets concrete cybersecurity goals in wake of data breach
The individuals affected in the recent data breach at the University of Maryland will be getting five instead of one year of free credit monitoring, the University’s …
DB Networks’ virtual IDS stops advanced SQL injection attacks
DB Networks introduced the IDS-6300v intelligent security virtual appliance, a new solution based on the next-generation Core Intrusion Detection System (IDS) platform …
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 6.0 released
SolarWinds released SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) 6.0, designed to deliver agentless performance and availability monitoring, alerting and reporting for …
MS SQL Agent facilitates the collection of MSSQL audit records
SNARE for MSSQL allows a security administrator to remotely set up, control and monitor the application through a standard web browser and a self-contained installation …
Protegrity expands enterprise big data protection capabilities
Protegrity released the Protegrity Data Security Platform 6.5, which expands the Protegrity Big Data Protector capabilities to include support and certification on many Apache …
Explore, analyze and visualize data in Hadoop
Splunk announced the beta version of Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop, a new software product that integrates exploration, analysis and visualisation of data in Hadoop. Hunk …