To protect your database and prevent it from becoming a crime scene, it is crucial to understand the common methods of attack, data theft, and cover up techniques.

Attacks then expanded to other database types and to file systems open on the web. A quick search by BleepingComputer on the IoT search engine Shodan initially found dozens of databases that have ...

Over 158 million personal data records have been exposed since February 2005. There is no question that databases are under attack. No longer satisfied with defacing Web sites or committing other ...

Database hacking has gone mainstream and is becoming harder to detect because of the increasingly sophisticated anti-forensic procedures hackers use to cover their tracks.

Attacks hit Hadoop servers, but there's no ransom, just vandalism Two security researchers, Victor Gevers and Niall Merrigan , have tracked these attacks from the beginning.

The file was left entirely unprotected - no encryption, no password, no safeguards - just a plain text document holding ...

Israeli company GreenSQL Ltd. has raised $7 million to bring its database security and compliance software to new countries. Jerusalem Venture Partners participated in the round alongside all of ...

Qantas has provided more details about the information held on a database that was the subject of a cyber attack, revealing ...