Security News

US passport and visa database open to intrusion? (Help Net Security)
2016-04-04 15:42

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 abroad, has been found to...

Security vulnerabilities found in U.S. visa database: ABC News (Yahoo Security)
2016-04-01 00:45

Oh, sugar! Sysadmin accidently deletes production database while fixing a fault (The Register)
2016-03-23 16:16

MariaDB Enterprise: Security at every level in the database (Help Net Security)
2016-03-10 13:30

MariaDB announced MariaDB Enterprise Spring 2016. New capabilities defend data against application and network-level attacks, support faster development of high-performance applications, and...

Pirates Hack into Shipping Company's Database (Schneier on Security)
2016-03-08 19:29

A group of pirates -- the real kind -- determined which cargo to steal by hacking into a shipping company's database. Here's the report....

Qualys releases app for ServiceNow Configuration Management Database (Help Net Security)
2016-03-01 00:45

Qualys announced it has received certification of its application with ServiceNow. The Qualys App for ServiceNow CMDB is an application that synchronizes Qualys IT asset discovery and...

uKnowKids Goes On Attack After Database Of 1,700 Kids Found Insecure (Threatpost)
2016-02-24 14:30

The CEO of uKnowKids attacks a security researcher for alerting him to an insecure database of kids and corporate secrets.

Linux Mint hack: Backdoored ISOs, stolen forums database (Help Net Security)
2016-02-22 16:49

The web properties of the project developing Linux Mint have been compromised, and the attacker managed to put up a backdoored version of the distro for download for a little while. The breach was...

Some questions for database project managers to answer (IT Toolbox Blogs)
2016-02-19 03:24

E-commerce web apps vulnerable to hijacking, database compromise (Help Net Security)
2016-02-18 21:00

High-Tech Bridge researchers have published details and PoC exploit code for several serious vulnerabilities in Osclass, osCmax, and osCommerce, three popular open source e-commerce web apps....