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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 R… Continue reading Database monitoring improves DevOps success for financial services orgs
On average, an exposed Mongo database is breached within 13 hours of being connected to the internet. The fastest breach recorded was carried out 9 minutes after the database was set up, according to Intruder. MongoDB is a general purpose, document-bas… Continue reading MongoDB is subject to continual attacks when exposed to the internet
Reposify unveiled research findings of critical asset exposures and vulnerabilities in attack surfaces of the world’s leading multinational banks. Researchers measured the prevalence of exposed sensitive assets including exposed databases, remote… Continue reading 23% of leading banks had an exposed database with potential data leakage
A misconfigured database containing 7 terabytes of sensitive user and company information related to adult live streaming site CAM4 has been found leaking data. The database apparently contains 10.88 billion records, which contain different combination… Continue reading Adult live streaming site CAM4 found leaking data of millions of users
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a sustained malicious campaign dating back to May 2018 that targets Windows machines running MS-SQL servers to deploy backdoors and other kinds of malware, including multi-functional remote access tools (RATs) … Continue reading WARNING: Hackers Install Secret Backdoor on Thousands of Microsoft SQL Servers
International hotel chain Marriott today disclosed a data breach impacting nearly 5.2 million hotel guests, making it the second security incident to hit the company in recent years.
“At the end of February 2020, we identified that an unexpected amoun… Continue reading Marriott Suffers Second Breach Exposing Data of 5.2 Million Hotel Guests
For the first time ever, the Apache Pulsar PMC team is publishing a user survey report. The 2020 Apache Pulsar User Survey Report reveals Pulsar’s accelerating rate of global adoption, details how organizations are leveraging Pulsar to build real-time … Continue reading User Survey 2020 Report Shows Rapid Growth In Apache Pulsar Adoption
An IT startup has developed a novel blockchain-based approach for secure linking of databases, called ChainifyDB. “Our software resembles keyhole surgery. With a barely noticeable procedure we enhance existing database infrastructures with blockc… Continue reading Researchers develop data exchange approach with blockchain-based security features
On the same day yesterday, when the US-based telecom giant T-Mobile admitted a data breach, the UK-based telecommunication provider Virgin Media announced that it has also suffered a data leak incident exposing the personal information of roughly 900,0… Continue reading Virgin Media Data Leak Exposes Details of 900,000 Customers
UK ISP and telecom provider Virgin Media has confirmed on Thursday that one of its unsecured marketing databases had been accessed by on at least one occasion without permission (though the extent of the access is still unknown). The database, containi… Continue reading Unsecured databases continue leaking millions of records