Cybercriminals have expanded their ransomware attacks to entities that are more likely to pay the money and have started to target companies by encrypting important databases used by their websites.

If you are part of a business, sooner or later you want to be able to collaborate on a database with a colleague or customer. In the past, the easiest way to share a small database was to create a ...

The content of any website for a business or organization comprises data, including text, images, media and numerical values. Using a database to store this data is an efficient approach for many ...

Microsoft Excel allows you to copy Web data directly from a website using a Web query. This has the effect of giving you indirect access to the underlying database. You can pull the data directly into ...

As organizations strive to deliver always-on access to applications users, it can be challenging to provide authorized access while simultaneously protecting against cyber-attacks. To address these ...

[Excerpted from "Strategies For Protecting Web-Facing Databases," a new report published this month in Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] What do recent database attacks have in ...

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I’ve just posted the fourth installment in my new series of Friday podcasts. It’s an interview with Kingsley Idehen, CEO of OpenLink Software. OpenLink’s flagship product is a universal database and ...

[Excerpted from "Protecting Databases From Web Applications," a new report published today in Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] Web applications are rich targets for attackers. Available ...

The relational database was purpose-built for the cloud and is said to be able to scale out easily and cost effectively. This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click ...