10 Database Security Best Practices You Should Know

According to Risk Based Security’s 2020 Q3 report, around 36 billion records were compromised between January and September 2020. While this result is quite staggering, it also sends a clear message of the need for effective database security measures…. Continue reading 10 Database Security Best Practices You Should Know

Database with 100,300 CityBee users’ login credentials leaked online

By Saad Rajpoot
According to the hacker behind the breach, they found the backup database of CityBee exposed on the internet for public access.
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TigerGraph raises $105M Series C for its enterprise graph database

TigerGraph, a well-funded enterprise startup that provides a graph database and analytics platform, today announced that it has raised a $105 million Series C funding round. The round was led by Tiger Global and brings the company’s total funding to over $170 million. “TigerGraph is leading the paradigm shift in connecting and analyzing data via […] Continue reading TigerGraph raises $105M Series C for its enterprise graph database

Hacked Finnish psychotherapy clinic files for bankruptcy

By Habiba Rashid
Finnish-based psychotherapy practice, Vastaamo, earlier came into the world’s attention back in October 2020 after it suffered a devastating attack.
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Hundred thousand Spotify accounts leaked in credential stuffing attack

By Saad Rajpoot
Spotify has suffered its second credential stuffing attack in three months.
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The Data Lakehouse Post 1 – My Database Wishlist – A Rant

In 2015, I wrote a book about the Security Data Lake. At the time, the big data space was not as mature as today and especially the intersection of big data and security wasn’t a well understood area. Fast forward to today, people are talking about to … Continue reading The Data Lakehouse Post 1 – My Database Wishlist – A Rant

[SANS ISC] Sensitive Data Shared with Cloud Services

I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Sensitive Data Shared with Cloud Services“: Yesterday was the data protection day in Europe. I was not on duty so I’m writing this quick diary a bit late. Back in 2020, the Nitro PDF service suffered from a data breach that impacted many

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BYKEA data breach: Pakistani ride-hailing app exposed 400m records

By Waqas
According to researchers, BYKEA’s 200 GB worth of database was exposed on an Elasticsearch server.
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Chinese firm leaked 200m Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn users’ data

By Deeba Ahmed
The 400GB worth of data was exposed due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch database.
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