Unknown threat actors are targeting poorly protected Microsoft SQL servers, in an attempt to infect them with a new strain of ransomware. A new report from cybersecurity researchers Securonix outlines ...

The security community is divided about the recent arrest of a security researcher who hacked into the website for the elections division of a county in Florida. The question is whether he deserved to ...

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. SQL injection attacks have been around for more than 10 years. Database security experts know they ...

Five Eastern European men have been charged with operating a global hacking operation that infiltrated some of the world’s biggest financial institutions, pilfered data for more than 160 million ...

Sony has faced a torrid few weeks as its networks have become targets for hackers Sony is investigating another hacking attack on one of its websites. A group called Lulz Security claims to have ...

On Jan. 25, 2003, a new worm took the Internet by storm, infecting thousands of servers running Microsoft’s SQL Server software every minute. The worm, which became known as SQL Slammer, eventually ...

BOSTON -- Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years and a day, and fined $25,000 on Friday for his role in breaches into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and other companies.

Attendees at ComNet weigh in on who’s to blame for the recent SQL Slammer outbreak: Microsoft for poor security or the infected users for not applying patches that have been out for 6 months? “I wish ...

If you’re building a Microsoft .NET network and you have an Oracle database, you should migrate it to SQL Server. It is not a question of which is better but of which one is the right tool for you. In ...