Security News

Deloitte's 'Test your Hacker IQ' site fails itself after exposing database user name, password in config file
2020-11-05 08:28

A website created for global consultancy Deloitte to quiz people on knowledge of hacking tactics has proven itself vulnerable to hacking. The site invites visitors to "Test Your Hacker IQ" by entering a username.

Report: Ransomware Disables Georgia County Election Database
2020-10-25 01:19

A ransomware attack that hobbled a Georgia county government in early October reportedly disabled a database used to verify voter signatures in the authentication of absentee ballots. According to a report in the Gainesville Times, the attack also disabled the county's voter signature database.

You’ve open sourced your relational database manager with PostgreSQL – but how can you keep it secure?
2020-10-20 06:00

There was a time when open source was still - no matter how many decades it had driven software projects - regarded as the playground of hippies and utopians. As incumbent vendors saw sense and bolted open source offerings onto their product load-outs, or even acquired celebrated open source gathering spots outright, open source suddenly became cool.

Phunware unveils MaaS Customer Data Platform to help create persistent, unified customer databases
2020-10-19 01:00

Phunware announced the launch of its Multiscreen-as-a-Service Customer Data Platform. Phunware's MaaS CDP is cloud-based and includes software and proprietary algorithms that aggregate and organize customer data across a variety of touchpoints in real-time in order to create persistent, unified customer databases.

With database attacks on the rise, how can companies protect themselves?
2020-10-14 05:00

We hear about some of them because security researchers tell us how they discovered them, pinpointed their owners and alerted them, but many others are found by attackers first. In the past two decades, he created the product security division at Progeny Linux Systems and worked as a manager of the Red Hat product security team and headed the security strategy in Red Hat's Platform Business Unit.

Email-spamming COVID profiteers deleted database with 'key evidence' when UK watchdog came knocking
2020-10-09 08:30

"The ICO investigation found that the company was not involved in the business of supplying PPE, but that the director had decided to buy face masks to sell on at a profit," the data regulator said in a statement. The firm is also said to have "Deleted a database of key evidence which would have shown the full extent of the volume of emails they had sent" after ICO investigators contacted the company.

Nutanix Era 2.0: Increased scale and reduced costs for IT and database teams
2020-10-08 00:30

Era 2.0 extends the Nutanix database management solution across clouds and clusters to simplify operations, with increased scale and reduced costs for IT and database teams. Era enables IT teams to deliver Database as a Service by bringing one-click simplicity and invisible operations to database provisioning and lifecycle management.

AWS launches Amazon Timestream, a serverless time series database for IoT and operational applications
2020-10-01 07:33

Amazon Timestream addresses these challenges by giving customers a purpose-built, serverless time series database for collecting, storing, and processing time series data. Amazon Timestream integrates with popular data collection, visualization, and machine learning tools that customers use today, including services like AWS IoT Core, Amazon Kinesis and Amazon MSK, Amazon QuickSight, and Amazon SageMaker, as well as open source, third-party tools like Grafana and Telegraf.

Chinese database details 2.4 million influential people, their kids, addresses, and how to press their buttons
2020-09-15 06:27

A US academic has revealed the existence of 2.4-million-person database he says was compiled by a Chinese company known to supply intelligence, military, and security agencies. The researcher alleges the purpose of the database is enabling influence operations to be conducted against prominent and influential people outside China.

Database monitoring improves DevOps success for financial services orgs
2020-09-14 03:30

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 deployments, a newly released edition of Redgate's 2020 State of Database Monitoring Report has revealed. The report shows that 61% of those in financial services deploy database changes once a week or more, compared to 43% across other sectors, and 52% deploy multiple times per day or week, up from 35% in other sectors.