Privilege escalation attacks consist of exploiting a bug or design flaw in a software application to gain access to resources which normally are protected from an application or user. The result is ...

A good detective understands the criminal mind, techniques, and tools of the trade. To protect your database and prevent it from becoming a crime scene, it is crucial to understand the common methods ...

Implementing comprehensive database security solutions can be an onerous task. Security requirements are always changing and new compliance requirements are constantly emerging. Despite this dynamic ...

Sure, database security may be incomplete without database activity monitoring or encryption technology in place. But most security practitioners worth their salt know that more often than not, the ...

Critical vulnerabilities in MySQL and database servers MariaDB and PerconaDB can lead to arbitrary code execution, root privilege escalation, and server compromise. Critical vulnerabilities in MySQL ...

A number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in the popular database software MySQL that could allow attackers to crash the service and deny access to users. Although researchers initially ...

It takes the average attacker less than 10 seconds to hack in and out of a database -- hardly enough time for the database administrator to even notice the intruder. So it’s no surprise that many ...