Ernst & Young (EY), one of the world’s biggest accounting companies, kept a complete database backup on the public internet, ...

DH2i, the world's major provider of always-secure and always-on IT solutions, announced the release of a new hands-on ...

A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY ...

To put the leak into perspective, the researcher who unearthed the EY exposure previously found an entire ransomware incident ...

SQL Server instances, even if equipped with provisions like automatic backup and recovery, are not sufficiently protected against sudden, disastrous situations like multi-site database failure, ...

If you've read the IT press at all these days, you know that SQL Injection (SI) attacks are very common and can be devastatingly effective. In fact, SI attacks-equally easy to execute against Oracle, ...

Databases contain valuable business assets; ensuring this information is secure is paramount. SQL Compliance Manager by Idera can protect those assets and help address your industry’s strict ...

UPDATE: The story that originally got my attention has been updated in all of the places I could still find it yesterday, so I’m pulling my references to the story and just focusing on the positive ...

Microsoft at its Tech Ed conference in San Diego on Tuesday will tout plans to add data encryption to its SQL Server database and seek federal government security certification for the platform as ...

I have worked with SQL Server for many years now, back to Sybase SQL Server days and there has always been confusion over Logins and Users. Even though they typically use the same name they are ...

For a bit of background I actually have the MSDE 2000 installed with the Enterprise Management tools installed from the SQL 2000 Evaluation version. I have the SQL Service Pack 1 installed. I don't ...