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Oracle ships giant raft of patches - but none of them for Java
Oracle's latest Patch Tuesday has come and gone, with the database-and-more behmoth putting out patches for 89 vulnerabilities. This is the last time that Java and the rest of Oracle's product set will...
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Lessons to learn from the MongoHQ database breach
Cloud-based database services company MongoHQ is in "we'd better fix things" mode this week, following a network intrusion that proves the old adage that once you've been breached, all security bets...
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FCC DoSed into silence as John Oliver roused net neutrality trolls
Within hours of the comedian's brilliant, 13-minute rant, the FCC's comment section was crushed by a database DoS attack. The DoS rendered the site incapable of accepting any public comment at all, be...
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Massive DEA license plate reader program tracks millions of Americans
The DEA is using license plate reader cameras to capture information on an enormous number of motorists, with nearly 800 million license plates stored in a database used by federal and local authorities.
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MacKeeper fails to keep 13 million Mac users safe
The researcher says he was able to access a MacKeeper company database of more than 13,000,000 customer records, including names, email addresses, usernames, password hashes, phone numbers, IP...
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Database of 2.2m suspected terrorists, money launderers leaked online
It was available to anybody who knew where to look, with no credentials needed to access it.
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Baton Rouge database of police details exposed over killing of Alton Sterling
Names and personal information for 50,000 police were leaked with the hashtags #AltonSterling, #Hacked, and#BlackLivesMatters.
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Baseball scouting exec gets 46 months for guessing rival team’s password
Chris Correa, ex-scouting director for the Cardinals, was sentenced for breaching the Astros' internal database and email.
View ArticleMassive MoviePass database found exposed on public server
Tens of thousands of records with financial data were left in plaintext in a database that wasn't protected with a password.
View ArticleLeaky database spills data on 20 million Ecuadorians and businesses
Included are deep details on 7 million minors, one grownup named Julian Assange, and perhaps a few million deceased Ecuadorians.
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