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The MemSQL scalable SQL database is now available through Red Hat Marketplace. Red Hat Marketplace is an open cloud marketplace for enterprise customers to discover, try, purchase, deploy, and manage certified container-based software across environments - public and private, cloud and on premises.
The personal information includes names, dates of birth, gender, physical addresses and email addresses, and election-specific data - such as when an individual registered to vote, voter registration numbers and polling stations - according to Kommersant, a Moscow-based newspaper. The outlet reported Tuesday that several databases of voter data turned up in an unnamed marketplace in late 2019.
MemSQL announced that Thentia is launching MemSQL as the core operational database for its cloud-based regulatory licensing, assurance and enforcement technology. MemSQL's speed and scale will enable Thentia to achieve fast response times and automate a historically paper-based regulatory compliance process.
Security firm Trustwave said the shared memory vulnerability in Db2 - CVE-2020-4414 - was similar to the problems found with Cisco's Webex in June. According to TrustWave, "Only Db2 for LUW is affected. Db2 for other platforms like IBM mainframes and z/OS are unaffected."
As Uber's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan broke the law by hushing up the theft of millions of people's details from the app maker's databases by hackers, prosecutors say. According to the government, the charges [PDF] stem from Sullivan's efforts to cover up the 2016 security breach at Uber in which miscreants siphoned from internal databases the personal information of 57 million passengers and 600,000 drivers, including their driving license details.
This increased strain has increased the need for DevOps and database DevOps processes, with 41% of respondents in the healthcare sector saying they have adopted DevOps across some projects to free up developer time and increase the speed of delivery. "We know that the healthcare sector is facing unprecedented demands from the pandemic and other regulatory struggles, and DevOps is the best way to tackle these issues," said Kendra Little, DevOps Advocate, Redgate.
In cases where the database administrators failed to change the default logins, accessing the database would be a simple task. Citing a real-world example of a major database leak, NordPass pointed to the instance from early 2019 in which millions of Facebook records were exposed on a public Amazon cloud server.
Poorly secured databases are being wiped and vandalized by the thousands in a seemingly automated attack. The nuked databases were left facing the internet by their administrators so that anyone can read and write them, access that malicious software dubbed the Meow bot took advantage of to wreck the information silos.
MariaDB announced the general availability of MariaDB Platform X5, a comprehensive open source database solution delivering the ultimate in versatility across workloads and scalability from a single database or data warehouse to millions of transactions per second. "MariaDB Platform X5 is the culmination of years of deep engineering work to bring together best-of-breed technologies in a meaningful way," said Michael Howard, CEO, MariaDB Corporation.
Commentary: Cyral has been on a roll with two open source projects designed to make security a natural part of the development workflow. By open sourcing Approzium, Cyral makes it easier for developers to trust the project precisely because they don't really have to trust it-they can see the code.