Millions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse

A massive database storing tens of millions of SMS  text messages, most of which were sent by businesses to potential customers, has been found online. The database is run by TrueDialog, a business SMS provider for businesses and higher education providers, which lets companies, colleges, and universities send bulk text messages to their customers and students. The Austin,…

101 DATA SECURITY TIPS: QUOTES FROM EXPERTS ON BREACHES, POLICY, NEWS & MORE

Data security is a top concern not only for enterprises and small business, but for everyday consumers as well. With widespread data breaches exposing everything from customer login credentials to credit card information to personal health records, consumers must be savvy about data security and take steps to protect their own information. Fortunately, there are…

Step by Step Install of Oracle12c RAC One Node On OEL 6.5 Using VMware

Description:- In this article let us configure Oracle 12cR1 One Node RAC. Below is the server details we are going to configure. High Level Steps:- 1) Pre-requisites for RAC Installation 2) SSH Configuration and running runcluvfy 3) Grid Infrastructure Installation 4) Database Binaries Installation 5) One Node RAC Database Creation Pre-requisites for RAC Installation:- Below…

New AWS Launch

🚀Amazon RDS for Oracle now Supports Oracle Database 19c 🚀Introducing notifications for AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline 🚀AWS supports Automated Draining for Spot Instance Nodes on Kubernetes https://amzn.to/2CqcCKx Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides…

Exposed database reveals apparent ticket fraud scheme. Scammers are just like us: bad at securing their data.

It was a good plan, as far as frauds go: rip off fans of live performances while simultaneously fleecing some of the internet’s biggest ticket vendors, such as Groupon, Ticketmaster and TickPick. The fraudsters create accounts with the ticket sellers and use stolen credit card information to make their purchases. Then they turn around and resell the tickets to…

Google’s quantum supremacy is only a first taste of a computing revolution “Quantum supremacy” is nice, but more broadly useful quantum computers are probably still a decade away.

A Google quantum computer has far outpaced ordinary computing technology, an achievement called quantum supremacy that’s an important milestone for a revolutionary way of processing data. Google disclosed the results in the journal Nature on Wednesday. The achievement came after more than a decade of work at Google, including the use of its own quantum computing chip, called Sycamore.…