Today companies rely on software to ensure their products and services can be made, sold and maintained the right way. This makes software crucial for their business. Luckily the software vendors provide support, so in case of issues/bugs/security gaps they’re ready to help and limit impact....
It’s no news to you that nowadays we’re targeted more than ever before security-wise. So we need to push every button we have at our disposal to increase our defenses. One of the weak points is that the accounts are used to run services. In most...
Once again it appears that good security is not an unnecessary luxury. A worldwide alarm has just been spread about malware that uses weak passwords in SQL Server. Using a brute force attack, one tries to guess the password of the sysadmin (sa) and then...
The need to protect data from being read by unauthorized people has always been there. In the last years, this need has even increased. One of the first things that come to mind is e.g. GPDR but there are many other cases why you need...
A best practice overview from our Microsoft SQL Server expert Christian Vandekerkhove. Whether you like it or not, your database is the fundamental part of your application. If you get it wrong it will cost you dearly in the end. A lot of money can be...
Again 4 new execution side-channel vulnerabilities were disclosed by Intel on May 14th. Each of them has its own name but collectively they are referred to as Microarchitectural Data Sampling (mds): CVE-2019-11091: Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM): part of RIDL CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer...