On January 1, 2014, an anonymous user announced the release of SnapchatDB and 4.6 million usernames and matched phone numbers in a Hacker News post. The Snapchat accounts - even those marked 'private' ...
Query processing and user interaction form the cornerstone of modern database systems, providing the framework for translating high‐level user queries into efficient, actionable operations. As data ...
Cloud-based database service MongoHQ said it’s changing log-in credentials for employees and customers alike after suffering a security breach that allowed attackers to access sensitive customer files ...
Microsoft has addressed a chain of critical vulnerabilities found in the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server that could let malicious users escalate privileges and gain access to other ...
The news aggregation site, Flipboard, has disclosed that their databases had been hacked and unauthorized users have potentially downloaded the data contained within them. This data included the ...
A new website allows Internet users to check if their usernames and passwords were exposed in some of the largest data breaches in recent years. The site is called haveibeenpwned.com and was created ...
Databases belonging to popular electronics retailer Gearbest were apparently left exposed by the firm. A white hat security team claimed that over 1.5 million records were accessible, including login ...
In a satisfaction survey comparing features from Oracle, IBM DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase Adaptive Server, 1,400 developers were most satisfied by ...
Processing power, networking and memory/storage are key ingredients in every computing architecture and they are key factors in running any application. In this piece we want to talk about the impact ...