In 2001 Larry Ellison brashly proclaimed in a keynote speech at the computing conference Comdex that his database software was "unbreakable." David Litchfield has devoted the last nine years to making ...

A copy of "SQL Server Forensic Analysis," by Kevvie Fowler, arrived in my mailbox today. I'd been looking forward it to because it is a highly topical subject given all of the data breaches that have ...

As my colleague Brian Krebs has noted, often the talks that don’t happen are more interesting than the ones that do. Apple certainly didn’t earn any PR points in the security community, by scrapping a ...

It's not sophisticated attacks, complex vulnerabilities or user errors that are the greatest threats to database security, says this expert. The 1.27 million userIDs and email addresses stolen from ...

Introductuion Computer security is a vast field that touches all aspects of data confidentiality, integrity and availability for suitably controlling access to data. Access control is only one of the ...