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Cockroach Labs, makers of CockroachDB, sits in a tough position in the database market. On one side, it has traditional database vendors like Oracle, and on the other there’s AWS and its family of databases. It takes some good technology and serious dollars to compete with those companies. Cockroach took care of the latter with […] Continue reading Cockroach Labs announces $55M Series C to battle industry giants
I read the following on Microsoft’s site. Can someone please clarify –
“With TDE, is the data stored in my data, log, and backup files protected from a disk theft?”
Yes, but only if the files are stored on a separate… Continue reading Does TDE not protect against disk theft?
is it possible that someone can hack a website if they have a database name, database username, and database password? if yes, how they do it?
database connection is mysql.
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I’m writing a small task management program in Java (not for mobile devices btw), and part of it was kind of a ‘data service’ to encapsulate and reuse database related code – such as connecting to different DBs, CRUD actions … Continue reading General security of offline databases (like SQLite)
I’m unsure if I have posted this in the correct community but the organisation I am currently working for currently uses an SQL ‘data warehouse’ which contains a bunch of tables from various sources, for various purposes. Thi… Continue reading Employer stores plain text personal data in a ‘data warehouse’
Add to the "not very smart criminals" file: According to court documents, Tinley provided software services for Siemens’ Monroeville, PA offices for nearly ten years. Among the work he was asked to perform was the creation of spreadsheets that the company was using to manage equipment orders. The spreadsheets included custom scripts that would update the content of the file… Continue reading Insider Logic Bombs
A user stores a raw information (a comment on a website, a like on a post etc.) in a database. He pairs it with a hashed password and keep the original password safely for him/herself. This password is required to modify or d… Continue reading Is it safe to protect the write permission only with a publicly accessible hashed password?
I’m a dev working on an app that has a monolith DB (PostgreSQL). We are using a third party provider for AUTH and MFA, but want to move MFA back into our control. The plan was to move the encrypted MFA secrets into our monol… Continue reading Separate Auth DB for Increased Security
I’m in the process of selecting a product for data masking sensitive information in our DB so that developers won’t see restricted information while testing production data.
I came across some articles and software that were talking abou… Continue reading What’s the advantage in encrypting data for data masking?
the question speaksfor itself, I’ve got nothing else to say but for some reason I’ve got to fill in the body so here we are