Microsoft warned of brute-forcing attacks targeting Internet-exposed ... enabling them to take full control of the SQL server. They then gain the ability to perform other actions, including ...

The botnet, named ' Vollgar ', breached the server with a password brute force attack ... and control server exists in China. Guardicore recommends using strong passwords for MS SQL to avoid ...

A new report from cybersecurity company Trustwave Holdings Inc. has found that attacks targeting Microsoft Corp ... systems were examined: MS SQL Server, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL ...

In December, security researchers noticed an uptick in brute-force attacks against publicly exposed Microsoft SQL servers ... and the command-and-control (C&C) servers are also hosted in China ...

The China-linked threat actor behind the recent in-the-wild exploitation of a critical security flaw in SAP NetWeaver has ...

Microsoft’s experts recently reported observing the method in action, which is also the first time someone’s used an SQL server in this way. Starting the attack ... due to errors, the approach ...

A hacker successfully attacked a Web page within Microsoft’s U.K. domain on Wednesday, resulting in the display of a photograph of a child waving the flag of Saudi Arabia. It was “unfortunate ...

On the heels of a dramatic rise in SQL injection attacks linked to drive-by malware downloads, Microsoft has released ... from being executed on the server. It uses a set of keywords to block ...