“RobbinHood” ransomware takes down Baltimore city government networks

A year after 911 system hit, most of city's networks are down.

Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report: Make It Harder for Hackers

The new Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report finds good and bad news on the security front.

Introduction to SQL Server Security — Part 4

The sa account is the most powerful account in a SQL Server instance, and most DBAs disable it. There are several other built-in accounts that you may not think about that often. Robert Sheldon continues his SQL Server security series with an article about built-in accounts.

A Double Failure

A company has both a server without a password and live data in test environments. Not a good situation.

Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft

I don't have a lot of good news for you. The truth is there's nothing we can do to protect our data from being stolen by cybercriminals and others....

Docker Database Hacked, 190,000 Users Affected

The hackers collected usernames, hashed passwords and in some cases GitHub and Bitbucket access tokens used to access repositories on the popular Git platforms many developers use for version control.

Data Breaches: All Your Fault

The more Grant Fritchey reads about data breaches, the more he realizes: It’s You. It’s your fault.

Azure SQL Database User

Disabled Database User?

In my many years of working as a DBA, I have encountered many disabled logins. However, I have never really encountered what looks to be a disabled database user account. I didn’t even think it was possible to disable a user account in a SQL Server database.

Password1, Password2, Password3 no more: Microsoft drops password expiration rec

For years, Microsoft's baseline security policy has expired passwords after 60 days.