The first proposed catalog of 'configuration smells' reveals widespread issues like context bloat, skill leakage, and conflicting instructions that can make coding agents less reliable and more ...

The brothers had collected 5,400 stolen credentials and used AI tools to cover their tracks during data destruction. Both twins were previously convicted in 2015 for hacking and stealing thousands of ...

This extension adds the same functionalities given by the Oracle's BFILE data type that stores unstructured binary data in flat files outside the database. A BFILE column stores a file locator that ...

The China-linked threat actor behind the recent in-the-wild exploitation of a critical security flaw in SAP NetWeaver has been attributed to a broader set of attacks targeting organizations in Brazil, ...

This GitHub repository contains code samples that demonstrate how to use Microsoft's Azure Data products including SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse, and Azure SQL Edge. Each sample ...

Security researchers have found a trove of threat actor tools that can bypass security defenses like Windows Defender and Malwarebytes, delete backups, disable systems, and many more malicious ...

Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer software, tracked as CVE-2023-34362, to steal data from organizations. MOVEit Transfer is a managed file ...

Vulnerable Microsoft SQL servers are being targeted in a new wave of attacks with FARGO ransomware, security researchers are warning. MS-SQL servers are database management systems holding data for ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...

As described in our previous article, the packer configuration contains the decryption key of the packed binary as well as its original filename, its size and the execution type (EXE or DLL). The ...