In the past, the question of how to perform auditing under SQL Server has had a simple answer: Do it yourself. But now, SQL Server 2000 has eased the burden of auditing by introducing an extensive and ...

Security analysts last week warned of a self-propagating worm targeting Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server software. The worm, called SQLSnake, scans for and attacks Internet-connected SQL Server accounts ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

I'm new at this whole DBA thing, so maybe this is totally standard practice.<BR><BR>But we have a software vendor that wants remote access to our SQL server at an admin level to setup and install ...

MS SQL Server is by far the most common DBMS that attackers target, probably due to its tight integration with Windows. Brute-force credential guessing attacks against database servers are ramping up ...