How to Obtain Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVA) Database [closed]

I want to access a vulnerability database by DoD. It is ‘Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)’ database (vulnerability with IAVA ID similar to CVE ).

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Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation

The pandemic may feel all-encompassing at the moment, but Confluent announced a $250 million Series E today, showing that major investment continues in spite of the dire economic situation at the moment. The company is now valued at $4.5 billion. Today’s round follows last year’s $125 million Series D. At that point the company was […] Continue reading Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation

Why are stored procedures and prepared statements the preferred modern methods for preventing SQL Injection over mysql real escape string() function

Why are stored procedures and prepared statements the preferred modern methods for preventing SQL Injection over mysql_real_escape_string() function?

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DataStax launches Kubernetes operator for open source Cassandra database

Today, DataStax, the commercial company behind the open source Apache Cassandra project, announced an open source Kubernetes operator developed by the company to run a cloud native version of the database. When Sam Ramji, chief strategy officer at DataStax, came over from Google last year, the first thing he did was take the pulse of […] Continue reading DataStax launches Kubernetes operator for open source Cassandra database

What are the risks of using non-ssl connection between server and (externally hosted) database?

I am building an application using AWS Lambda and using a MongoDB database hosted directly with MongoDB (Atlas). For some reason, I get an error when trying to connect via SSL and I’ve been working on it for days without any luck.

What ar… Continue reading What are the risks of using non-ssl connection between server and (externally hosted) database?