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Microsoft invests $25 Million in open-source database startup Neon

Pradeep Viswanathan — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 14:34:01 +0000

Neon, an open-source database startup, received a $25 million strategic investment from Microsoft's Venture Fund, M12. Neon plans to use this funding for research and development of its products. Read more...

Samsung Galaxy S24 FE is in the works, spotted in UK carrier EE's database

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:52:02 +0000

A fresh leak shows the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE in the UK carrier EE's database indicating that the wallet-friendly phone with flagship features from the Korean giant could launch in the UK in future. Read more...

Safari API bug can leak your personal data and enable online tracking

Usama Jawad — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:16:01 +0000

Security researchers have publicly detailed a Safari API bug which can potentially leak your personal data and unique identifiers to every website you visit with Safari. A fix is still not available. Read more...

Azure Data Studio's August release brings Notebook improvements and more

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 19:46:01 +0000

This month's release for Microsoft's database tool focuses on the availability of new Notebook improvements. The search experience has also been enhanced, among bug fixes and further changes. Read more...

Database Acceleration for AWS - Free eBook

News Staff — Mon, 25 May 2020 18:46:01 +0000

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UK: User data exposed by free Wi-Fi at several train stations

Paul Hill — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:28:01 +0000

A security researcher has uncovered a public database containing a plethora of information about users that connected to public Wi-Fi at UK train stations. Access has since been restricted. Read more...

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News Staff — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:16:02 +0000

With today's highlighted deal, you can become an in-demand AWS Cloud Expert and launch a six-figure career with this nine-course bundle. For a short period, this bundle is heavily discounted! Read more...

This Oracle Professional Certification Training Bundle is 93% off at $59

News Staff — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:46:01 +0000

Work toward validating your data handling skills with 24 hours of exam prep in two essential Oracle IT tools. 1Z0-061 and 1Z0-062 are covered in this vastly discounted bundle via Neowin Deals. Read more...

Google may be fined in Russia for not following site-blocking rules

Usama Jawad — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 13:20:01 +0000

It appears that Google may be fined for not following Russia's site-blocking rule, which forces ISPs and search engines to connect to a database of blocked sites before displaying search results. Read more...

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News Staff — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:00:01 +0000

With today's offer, bag the full or partial Learn to Code 2018 Bundle. A price you pick gets you up to 140 hours of premium coding instruction, from Python to Angular and everything in between. Read more...

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News Staff — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:00:01 +0000

Technology may allow us to “go bigger”, but maybe not necessarily be better when it comes to performance. Ensure your back-end looks good with this complimentary offer, before it expires! Read more...

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News Staff — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:00:01 +0000

Spyware app reportedly leaks millions of its own customers' sensitive records online [Update]

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:32:01 +0000

mSpy, makers of a phone monitoring app, have leaked private information of millions of its paying customers in an online database. This isn't the first time mSpy has been involved in such a situation. Read more...

T-Mobile Austria succumbs to public pressure; will now hash customer passwords

Usama Jawad — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:44:01 +0000

It appears that T-Mobile has succumbed to customer backlash, and has vowed to hash and salt passwords before storing them. Passwords won't be visible to service agents anymore as well. Read more...

T-Mobile Austria stores passwords in plain text because its security is 'amazingly good'

Usama Jawad — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:04:02 +0000

In a mind-boggling series of tweets, T-Mobile Austria's social media managers have confirmed that it stores customer passwords as plain text because its security is "amazingly good". Read more...

Wuhan has deployed facial recognition to ID drivers

Paul Hill — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 02:14:01 +0000

China's Wuhan city has rolled out an update to its online traffic management platform which allows users to verify their identity with a face scan rather than having to provide physical ID. Read more...

SQL Server 2017 RC1 is now publicly available on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Docker

Usama Jawad — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:14:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced the public availability of SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate 1 on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Docker. The database software packs a number of enhancements and new features. Read more...

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has created a website to document government expenditure

Usama Jawad — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:20:01 +0000

Former Microsoft CEO and current Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has unveiled a public database which documents how the government spends every cent of the taxpayer's money. Read more...

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube band together to tackle ‘terrorist' content

Paul Hill — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 03:14:01 +0000

Social media sites have come together to create a database of hashed terrorist content that has been removed from a participating site, making it easier for partners to delete content on their site. Read more...

8,000 companies have signed up to try Microsoft's SQL Server for Linux in first week

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:22:01 +0000

Last week, Microsoft announced it would be bringing its SQL Server product to Linux. Now the move seems to be a big winner, with thousands of companies signing up to try the beta of the product. Read more...

Badly configured database reveals data of 191 million US voters, authorities shut it down

Paul Hill — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:16:01 +0000

Security researcher, Chris Vickery, managed to find a publicly available server which held the details of all US voters. Luckily, public access to the database has now been cut off. Read more...

Microsoft announces SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0, as well as Azure Data Lake

Chris Dupres — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 00:02:01 +0000

In a blog post on TechNet, Microsoft has announced their latest SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview along with their Big Data solution, Azure Data Lake and new features for Azure SQL. Read more...

CNET user database stolen by Russian hacking group, auctioned for $600

Jett Goldsmith — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 00:36:04 +0000

CNET has said that a database from its website, which included the usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords of over 1 million users, has been stolen by a Russian hacker group known as 'w0rm'. Read more...

eBay hacked, database breached and personal information compromised

Daniel Hull — Wed, 21 May 2014 14:41:34 +0000

Worldwide auctioning site eBay has announced a security breach within their database. The company has stated that confidential personal information has been obtained within the past few months. Read more...

MySQL 5.5.20 Community Edition

Steven Parker — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:47:33 +0000

MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts. Read more...

MySQL 5.5.15 Community Edition

Steven Parker — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:14:38 +0000

All My Movies 6.5

Steven Parker — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:17:52 +0000

All My Movies lets you easily import movie details from the online movie databases, so you don't need to type all the details manually. You can quickly search your database via almost all database fields.... Read more...

MySQL 5.5.14 Community Edition

Steven Parker — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:58:12 +0000

MySQL 5.5.13 Community Edition

Steven Parker — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:11:51 +0000

phpMyAdmin 3.4.1

Steven Parker — Sun, 22 May 2011 13:37:48 +0000

phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL. Support for most MySQL features Browse and... Read more...

MySQL 5.5.12 Community Server

Steven Parker — Tue, 10 May 2011 08:54:10 +0000

Mistyped tag leads to exposure of Tumblr DB passwords and API keys

Brad Sams — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:02:35 +0000

Sometimes it doesn't matter how robust your security is or how diligently you maintain patches to your system as a single human can always be your weakest point in the operation. Tumblr learned this the... Read more...

Silverpop's database exposed, deviantART email addresses leaked

Brad Sams — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:53:29 +0000

DeviantART, the worlds largest social network for artists, has had one of their databases exposed. This latest breach comes in the shadows of McDonald's member database and Gawker database exposures in the past two days. DeviantART... Read more...

McDonald's customer database hacked

Alan Cone — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:16:54 +0000

Following the previous week of DDoS attacks and the database leak of Gawker, McDonald's has fallen victim to a similar fate. McDonald's is now warning customers that signed up for any promotions or registered at... Read more...

Gawker source code and database leaked

Alan Cone — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:44:19 +0000

Today, technology media giant Gawker, that runs sites including Gizmodo and Lifehacker, has had their source code and databases leaked to a popular torrent website. Gawker issued in a statement to anyone who has an account... Read more...

Researcher says Oracle database can be hacked remotely

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:59:07 +0000

A computer security expert believes that nine in every ten Oracle databases are vulnerable to an attack that would give hackers access and control over sensitive corporate and government database systems, without the need for... Read more...

EU gives Oracle unconditional approval for Sun purchase

Matthew Hopson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:42:11 +0000

U.S. software company Oracle has been given unconditional approval from the European Union for its $7 billion purchase of computer maker Sun Microsystems, reports Reuters. Oracle was given the go ahead by the U.S. Department... Read more...

MySQL founder calls for protests against Oracle takeover

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:51:27 +0000

The founder of the popular MySQL database is calling for people to protest against Oracle's attempted takeover of Silicon Valley based Sun Microsystems. Michael Widenius says that the European Commission must block the deal in... Read more...

Pension details of 109,000 members on stolen laptop

Sam Alderwick — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:13:58 +0000

A laptop which contained the personal details of 109,000 pensioners in the UK has been stolen, according to an article from the BBC. The laptop was stolen from an office in Buckinghamshire, and was not... Read more...

UK government drops 'Orwellian' database plans

James Hall — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:20:45 +0000

As reported here last year, in its efforts to stop terrorism and the crimes of fraudsters and paedophiles, the UK government had been floating the idea of devising a central database to contain records of... Read more...