Aussie techies rally to save condemned education database 

Aussie techies rally to save condemned education database

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 1 September 2011 1:16 PM
Educational resource set for scuttling.
Groupon loses 300,000 user details 

Groupon loses 300,000 user details

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 28 June 2011 10:34 AM
Australian users safe.
Growing pains: Amazon EC2 suffers huge outage 

Growing pains: Amazon EC2 suffers huge outage

In Risk - By Brett Winterford, 27 April 2011 11:18 AM
Described as the "worst outage in cloud computing history".
Hacker takes off with TripAdvisor's customer email database  

Hacker takes off with TripAdvisor's customer email database

In Crypto - By Nate Cochrane, 24 March 2011 11:58 PM
Personal details for as many as 20 million travellers in the wind.
McAfee swoops on Sentrigo 

McAfee swoops on Sentrigo

In Crypto - By SC Australia Staff, 24 March 2011 3:40 PM
Database security and vulnerability management vendor last piece of the puzzle.
US security expert reveals WORM compromise 

US security expert reveals WORM compromise

In Crypto - By John Hilvert, 17 March 2011 12:27 PM
Attack the index.
Contractor jailed for poisoning database 

Contractor jailed for poisoning database

In Hackers - By Liam Tung, 14 January 2011 12:58 PM
Payback for cold sacking.
Hell Pizza customer database hacked 

Hell Pizza customer database hacked

In Risk - By Dan Raywood, 27 July 2010 12:01 PM
Personal details of 230,000 customers revealed.
Bottle Domains termination stands: auDA 

Bottle Domains termination stands: auDA

In Hackers - By Ry Crozier, 26 July 2010 2:35 PM
Last ditch bid fails.
Microsoft starts stolen accounts database 

Microsoft starts stolen accounts database

In Web/client - By Shaun Nichols, 18 June 2010 10:37 AM
Internet Fraud Alert will report stolen credentials and data.
Oracle boosts database security with Secerno buy 

Oracle boosts database security with Secerno buy

In Cloud - By Phil Muncaster, 24 May 2010 9:54 AM
First line of defence.
Victoria Police delay crime database swap 

Victoria Police delay crime database swap

In Networks - By Ry Crozier, 29 March 2010 12:52 PM
Avoiding a potential cost blowout.
Pakistani cyber crime website hit by hacker 

Pakistani cyber crime website hit by hacker

In Web/client - By Dan Raywood, 12 January 2010 11:39 AM
Hacker managed to gain access to email database.
Web sites in their thousands selling on customer data 

Web sites in their thousands selling on customer data

In Risk - By Phil Muncaster, 30 December 2009 7:56 AM
Subscribers conned by smallprint conditions.
IBM completes Guardium acquisition 

IBM completes Guardium acquisition

In Cloud - By Dan Raywood, 3 December 2009 10:58 AM
"A turning point in security strategy".
Oracle patches show a major database vulnerability 

Oracle patches show a major database vulnerability

In Applications - By Dan Raywood, 17 July 2009 3:16 PM
Updates issued this week by Oracle should be applied immediately, according to Imperva.
UK police under fire in new database row 

UK police under fire in new database row

In Risk - By Phil Muncaster, 9 March 2009 10:36 AM
Just a day after the UK Information Commissioner raided a firm for possessing a covert database of construction workers’ personal information, it emerged that the police force ...
Best Western insists massive database wasn't stolen 

Best Western insists massive database wasn't stolen

In Risk - By Egan Orion, 27 August 2008 8:36 AM
An article that appeared in last weekend's Glasgow Sunday Herald claiming personal information belonging to eight million travellers had been winkled has been denounced.
Fortinet acquires technologies from database security firm IPLocks  

Fortinet acquires technologies from database security firm IPLocks

In Risk - 18 June 2008 4:18 PM
Fortinet today announced it has acquired database security products and technologies from privately held US company IPLocks.
Oracle closes 41 vulnerabilities, 17 in its database 

Oracle closes 41 vulnerabilities, 17 in its database

In Applications - By Jim Carr, 17 April 2008 10:03 AM
Oracle on Tuesday patched 41 vulnerabilities, including 17 impacting its flagship Oracle database product, in its April Critical Patch Update (CPU) round of security fixes.
Oracle to release database patches this week 

Oracle to release database patches this week

In Crypto - By Greg Masters, 14 April 2008 4:33 PM
Oracle announced it plans to release patches for a number of products on Tuesday.
Kaspersky boosts security offering with PhishTank database 

Kaspersky boosts security offering with PhishTank database

In Web/client - By Fiona Raisbeck, 15 October 2007 9:50 AM
Kaspersky Lab has added new anti-phishing databases to its internet security product.
Terrorist database stolen in raid was encrypted, police confirm 

Terrorist database stolen in raid was encrypted, police confirm

In Risk - By Fiona Raisbeck, 14 August 2007 1:32 PM
Thieves have stolen a computer database from a company that specialises in gathering evidence from mobile phone networks to help police track suspected terrorists.
EU governments agree to DNA database sharing 

EU governments agree to DNA database sharing

In Hackers - By Fiona Raisbeck, 14 June 2007 11:18 AM
A DNA and personal information database will be shared between all the police forces in Europe under new plans agreed by EU governments yesterday.
Enterprises ignoring database security 

Enterprises ignoring database security

In Risk - By Clement James, 6 June 2007 12:43 PM
Database managers caught between a rock and a hard place, says report.
Thousands exposed to fraud following database theft 

Thousands exposed to fraud following database theft

In Risk - By Fiona Raisbeck, 30 May 2007 11:31 AM
Thousands of customer details have been used by fraudsters following the theft of a Cable & Wireless database, an investigation has found.
Anti-phishing database launched to halt attacks 

Anti-phishing database launched to halt attacks

In Messaging - By Fiona Raisbeck, 24 May 2007 7:36 AM
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has announced that it will share information and analysis on phishing attacks and trends stored in a central database that will be ...
Hackers steal 22,000 Social Security numbers from University in US  

Hackers steal 22,000 Social Security numbers from University in US

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 10 May 2007 10:17 AM
The University of Missouri is the latest university to fall victim to cybercrime, after hackers breached a database and lifted more than 20,000 Social Security numbers (SSNs).
First ID theft database is launched 

First ID theft database is launched

In Risk - By Fiona Raisbeck, 25 January 2007 8:29 AM
A new service that allows consumers to check if their personal information has been stolen or compromised by criminals was launched today.
Oracle database vulnerable to new attack class 

Oracle database vulnerable to new attack class

In Risk - By Tom Sanders, 29 November 2006 10:19 AM
Database security researcher David Litchfield with NGS Software claims to have discovered a new class of security flaw affecting Oracle databases.
Children's database puts kids at risk 

Children's database puts kids at risk

In Risk - By Iain Thomson, 23 November 2006 10:32 AM
A controversial planned government database to record all attributes of UK children's lives could actually put youngsters in more danger, a report from the Foundation for ...
Database security 'IT's biggest problem' 

Database security 'IT's biggest problem'

By Rene Millman, 8 August 2006 12:14 PM
Database security is the biggest problem facing the IT industry, according to one security expert.
Man charged over medical college database theft 

Man charged over medical college database theft

By René Millman, 25 July 2006 12:31 PM
A 46-year-old man has been charged with stealing the membership database held at the American College of Physicians (ACP) in Philadelphia.
NIST unveils new vulnerability database 

NIST unveils new vulnerability database

By Marcia Savage, 15 August 2005 5:55 PM
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a new vulnerability database that integrates all publicly available federal vulnerability resources and ...
Florida man charged in huge database break-in 

Florida man charged in huge database break-in

By Marcia Savage, 23 July 2004 6:56 PM
A federal grand jury indicted a 45-year-old Florida man in connection with a scheme to steal a huge amount of personal information from a database belonging to Acxiom.
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