Preparing for Ransomware: I Built a System to Encrypt XServer's Production DB and Automatically Back It Up to OneDrive

Recently, I have been seeing news about cyberattacks and ransomware damage to companies much more frequently.The ransomware ...
Cyber Security News

Hackers Breach Two Major South Korean Churches, Exposing Data of Over 1 Million People

Hackers breached two major South Korean churches, exposing more than one million congregant records and extensive financial ...
Hosted on MSN

Database expert runs Doom in SQL with just 5,900 lines of code

It's the year of two thousand and twenty-six, and "Running Doom on X" is still probably the most popular software hacking hobby. From pregnancy tests to space satellites, the 1993 game has been ported ...

"It works on my machine"—9 places where the same code and commands silently take on different meanings depending on where they run

"It works on my machine." I'm sure you've said it or heard it at least once—in code reviews, in chat, or during incident post ...
Security Affairs

Storm-3168, Linked to JADEPUFFER, Abused Stolen Azure Identities

Microsoft details Storm-3168, the JADEPUFFER-linked actor that used stolen service principals to delete Azure storage and ...
CNBC

Treasury Department to buy back up to $6 billion in longer-term debt, triple the normal level

The Treasury Department said Wednesday it will raise its bond buybacks to up to $6 billion for an operation that will happen Thursday. Future operations will be at least $4 billion. The move will ...
Bisnow

Summer Broke The Script. Here's What CRE Is Walking Back Into

UPDATE, SEPT. 10, 5:34 P.M. ET: The 10-year Treasury yield reached 4.9% this week, extending a climb that began after the U.S. Treasury Department tripled its debt-buyback program on Sept. 9. Oil ...
cyberpress

12-Year-Old PostgreSQL Flaw Lets Backup Accounts Execute Code and Take Over Databases

A critical PostgreSQL vulnerability dubbed PostGREShell could allow low-privileged backup and replication accounts to execute arbitrary code, escalate to database superuser privileges, and establish ...
XDA Developers

This self-hosted tool replaced a year of backup scripts, and now I barely think about backups at all

Beginning his professional journey in the tech industry in 2018, Yash spent over three years as a Software Engineer. After that, he shifted his focus to empowering readers through informative and ...
techtimes

WordPress Backup Plugin Flaw: 3.25 Million Sites Exposed, Exploit Code Active

A high-severity SQL injection flaw in All-in-One WP Migration and Backup — installed on more than 5 million WordPress sites — has a weaponized proof-of-concept exploit circulating in ...
PC World

Microsoft OneDrive wants to back up everything. You don’t have to let it

Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud backup: It’s one of the more polarizing features within Windows, an annoyance as much as a utility. It’s getting better, fortunately — or at least it looks that way. Windows ...
Christianity Today

Church Abuse Survivors Launch Protestant Database

In contrast to Catholics, until now there has been no all-encompassing site cataloging Protestant leaders accused of misconduct or convicted of crimes. With the help of Catholic abuse survivors, ...