A command-line tool that inspects the TLS certificate and Kerberos configuration of a SQL Server instance. Connects at the raw TDS protocol level and captures the certificate from the TLS handshake ...

SQL Server DBA specializing in performance tuning and disaster recovery. Bad code rarely begins the cascade of most SQL Server performance problems. Typically, it begins with something that is much ...

Nearly every major product family needs immediate patching, from Windows to Office to Microsoft Edge, SQL Server, and even Microsoft Developer Tools. Windows admins are going to be busy this month, ...

On January 14, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the January Security Update patch, which fixed 112 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft Office, ...

Last week, a prominent US senator called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for cybersecurity negligence over the role it played last year in health giant Ascension’s ransomware ...

The TinyTDS gem is meant to serve the extremely common use-case of connecting, querying and iterating over results to Microsoft SQL Server from Ruby using the FreeTDS's DB-Library API. TinyTDS offers ...

Database administrator with 14+ years of hands-on experience in database management and database design. After spending 15 years as a SQL Server DBA, I've witnessed numerous technological evolutions, ...

Microsoft has shed light on a previously undocumented cluster of malicious activity originating from a Russia-affiliated threat actor dubbed Void Blizzard (aka Laundry Bear) that it said is attributed ...

Exposed PostgreSQL instances are the target of an ongoing campaign designed to gain unauthorized access and deploy cryptocurrency miners. Cloud security firm Wiz said the activity is a variant of an ...

Today is Microsoft's November 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 89 flaws, including four zero-days, two of which are actively exploited. This Patch Tuesday fixed four critical ...