Yet Another Exposed Database, This Time with 184 Million Records

Yet Another Exposed Database, This Time with 184 Million Records

I had hoped by now we’d be long past the discovery of exposed or misconfigured databases, considering how dangerous they can be to businesses, governments and individuals—and given the heightened security measures ...
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The Cloud Illusion: Why Your Database Security Might Be at Risk

The Cloud Illusion: Why Your Database Security Might Be at Risk

With the right cloud database architecture, you gain versatility as well as optimal security.  ...
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The Database Kill Chain

Modern attacks targeting sensitive data have become complex. An organization with many assets might be lost when trying to assess its overall risk, understand the pain points and prioritize the tasks required ...
Database Ransomware: From Attack to Recovery

Database Ransomware: From Attack to Recovery

Introduction In recent years, ransomware attacks have risen sharply, due to their profitability, ease of access with ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) tools, and an increasing attack surface.  Ransomware is a type of attack in ...

Major Database Security Threats & How You Can Prevent Them

Organizations and businesses must use a range of measures, protocols, and tools to protect their databases from cybercriminals. If breached, malicious actors can gain access to sensitive information that they can use ...
API Security 101: Security Misconfiguration

API Security 101: Security Misconfiguration

An overview of the most common security misconfigurations, a constant threat against API implementations.Photo by Anne Nygård on UnsplashYou’ve probably heard of the OWASP top ten or the top ten vulnerabilities that threaten ...

Ghidra 101: Loading Windows Symbols (PDB files)

In this blog series, I will be putting the spotlight on useful Ghidra features you may have missed. Each post will look at a different feature and show how it helps you save time ...

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 ...
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The Data Lakehouse Post 2 – The Data Lakehouse Itself

In my previous blog post, I ranted a little about database technologies and threw a few thoughts out there on what I think a better data system would be able to do ...

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 ...