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Microsoft Acquires Metanautix to Drive Business Insights Across Silos

Late last week, Microsoft announced it acquired Metanautix, a big data analytics company whose technology allows different data types (such as documents, audio files, images, and videos) and across different silos to be aggregated into petabyte-scale SQL databases. Continue reading

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Australia-Based Telstra Faces Cyberattack on Newly Acquired Pacnet, May Take Legal Action

Attackers used a SQL injection attack on April 3rd to upload malicious code to Pacnet servers. According to a press call on Wednesday, Australia-based Telstra was made aware of the breach on April 16 after its acquisition of Pacnet was finalized. Telstra purchased Pacnet for $697 million to expand in… Continue reading

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Millions of WordPress Installations at Risk of Blind SQL Injection Through Popular SEO Plugin Yoast

All versions of the popular WordPress SEO plugin Yoast prior to 1.7.3.3 are vulnerable to a blind SQL injection attack. In an advisory published Wednesday, Ryan Dewhurst, developer of the WordPress vulnerability scanner WPScan announced the flaw which he first noticed on Tuesday. This type of attack can lead to… Continue reading

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Database Company MongoDB Secures $80M to Fuel Growth

MongoDB, the company behind the popular “Not Only SQL” or “NoSQL” database of the same name, has secured an additional $80 million in funding, bringing its total funding to $311 million. Continue reading

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Average SQL Injection Breach Takes 140 Days to Discover: Ponemon Institute Report

A new study released on Wednesday shows that SQL injection breaches take an average of nearly 140 days to discover, and require an additional 68 days on average to fix. Read More Continue reading

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