database security

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 …

A group of students from Saarland University’s Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA) have discovered tens of thousands MongoDB databases accessible …

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’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 …

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 …

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 …

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 introduced the IDS-6300v intelligent security virtual appliance, a new solution based on the next-generation Core Intrusion Detection System (IDS) platform …

SolarWinds released SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) 6.0, designed to deliver agentless performance and availability monitoring, alerting and reporting for …

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 released the Protegrity Data Security Platform 6.5, which expands the Protegrity Big Data Protector capabilities to include support and certification on many Apache …

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 …