Category: Series

• Common Database Vulnerabilities: Unprotected Network

  

  2014-08-27 - Common Database Vulnerabilities, General, Security, Series

  Database network security is affected by the physical security of the network itself, but also by the security of the communication between the database server and the client. Do not make the mistake to think that network security is not your responsibility. Read on to discover the one thing you have to do now to protect the communication of your database server over the network.

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• Common Database Vulnerabilities: SQL Injection

  

  2014-08-25 - Common Database Vulnerabilities, General, Security, Series, SQL Injection

  You might think you know everything about SQL Injection. Many people think so. But, do you really understand every nuance? Find out if you do and discover why SQL Injection vulnerabilities are still so common.

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• Common Database Vulnerabilities: Privilege Abuse

  

  2014-08-18 - Common Database Vulnerabilities, General, Security, Series

  Privilege abuse comes in two forms: Abuse of excessive and of legitimate privileges. Discover how to protect your environment from this vulnerability.

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• Hey, where is my BLOB?

  

  2014-08-13 - General, Series, SQL Server Internals, Storage Wednesday

  LOB values are not always stored in the special LOB_DATA allocation unit. But, where else could they be? Discover the well-kept secret of the Inline LOB.

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• How to Overflow a BLOB Value

  

  2014-08-06 - General, Series, SQL Server Internals, Storage Wednesday

  It is advertised as 2 GB, but what is actually the largest number of bytes that can be stored in a SQL Server BLOB value? Read on to find out now.

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