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Microsoft SQL Server under attack

Arbour Networks knows a thing or two about internet security as their gear is used by most top tier ISPs. They run an interesting internet threat analysis service at http://atlas.arbor.net/. I’ve been watching it for the past couple of weeks. During this time Microsoft SQL Server has consistently been the top attack target. Not only has SQL Server been a consistent target, it has been a target for over 50% of all attacks.

SQL Server under attack

Now, I don’t want to come across as bashing SQL Server. I am not one of those people who will claim that Microsoft [...]

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP3 out on Microsoft Update

The nice part about Microsoft SQL Server Express is that unlike Oracle XE, you can count on getting updates. There hasn’t been an update to Oracle XE since, well never, and that is despite the fact that it has a gazillion security vulnerabilities that have been addressed in the paid versions of Oracle database. [...]

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The demise of the open source fanatic

I spent the last week in Portland at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention also known as OSCON. We were part of the IBM exhibit talking to people about DB2 Express-C. OSCON is an interesting conference. Basically it is a big lovefest for the open source guys. Imagine about 2500 geeks all assembled in a single place for a week to talk about free software. The best part for me is that OSCON is not fixated on Linux. There were plenty of tutorials and talks on PHP, Python, Django, Ruby on Rails and of course databases. As one would expect there [...]

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