A Long-Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived
“What we focus on is not how to do arithmetic operations on encrypted data, but how to find information fast—like really, really fast,” says Kamara, who is…
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Thousands of unprotected Elasticsearch databases are being ransomed
The internet-facing instances are currently being accessed by attackers who remove the vulnerable databases and leave a ransom note instead.…
Elasticsearch databases are being hit hard by ransom attacks
Hundreds of misconfigured Elascticsearch databases were recently hit by ransom attacks (opens in new tab), security experts have found. Cybersecurity…
Microsoft Azure bug left a bunch of cloud databases wide open
Multiple critical vulnerabilities in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server were recently discovered and fixed, Microsoft has announced in a…
How to create a MySQL 8 database user with remote access to all databases
At some point, you're going to need to be able to connect to a MySQL 8 database remotely to manage your databases (either from the command line or a…
‘Off label’ use of imaging databases could lead to bias in AI algorithms, study finds
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Significant advances in…
Thousands of mobile app cloud databases have been left exposed online
Businesses continue to leave their cloud databases unsecured online despite the risk of company data and even user data being exposed.Following a three…
AI-produced images can’t fix diversity issues in dermatology databases
Image databases of skin conditions are notoriously biased towards lighter skin. Rather than wait for the slow process of collecting more images of…
Genetic Databases Are Too White. Here’s What It’ll Take to Fix It
The first step to fixing the lack of diversity, the researchers argue in their paper, is to better engage underrepresented communities. Western researchers…