Cyber attack has become one of the most common crimes in the recent times. E-Commerce giant eBay Inc. (EBAY) recently disclosed that one of its corporate information networks suffered a cyber attack.

After the ransacking of MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, and CouchDB servers, attackers are now hijacking hundreds of MySQL databases, deleting their content, and leaving a ransom note behind ...

A researcher tomorrow will demonstrate a proof-of-concept attack that lets outside attackers and malicious insiders surreptitiously crack passwords for Oracle databases with a basic brute-force ...

Attacks hit Hadoop servers, but there's no ransom, just vandalism Two security researchers, Victor Gevers and Niall Merrigan , have tracked these attacks from the beginning.

A diagram of how CryptDB is supposed to help secure data on SQL databases while allowing applications to work with its data. ... (or anyone who attacks the database by gaining trusted access) ...

Personal records for more than 309,000 students and staff were exposed this week in a "sophisticated" database attack at the University of Maryland, the university said Wednesday.

Anatomy of the attack Now let's look at the sequence of events that precipitated the data breach. Had any of these steps been noticed and countered, the attack would likely have fallen apart. 1.

Last week, an anonymous collective released a database of 4.6 million Snapchat users and their phone numbers.

Independent researcher Jose Palazon and Chema Alonso of security vendor Informatica64 presented their finding, which they called a CSPP (connection string parameter pollution) attack, at the Black ...