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Experian challenged over massive data leak in Brazil

Consumer rights body criticizes explanations from the credit bureau in relation to the data exposure of over 220 million citizens.

February 20, 2021 by Angelica Mari

The top ten most common database security vulnerabilities

What are the most common, and serious, database vulnerabilities that businesses should be aware of?

June 26, 2013 by Charlie Osborne

Open source observability, meet data transformation: Grafana 7.0 promises to connect, unify, and visualize all your data

Grafana Labs sets the bar for open source observability with Grafana 7.0: more developer friendly, more data sources, data transformation, and growth in the cloud and on premise

May 18, 2020 by George Anadiotis

Databases, graphs, and GraphQL: The past, present, and future

GraphQL was never conceived as a query language for databases. Yet, it's increasingly being used for this purpose. Here's why, and how.

March 30, 2021 by George Anadiotis

Military takes over Brazil's National Data Protection Authority

Members of the Armed Forces form the majority of the board of the body responsible for enforcing the data protection rules.

October 23, 2020 by Angelica Mari

Speedb is a drop-in replacement for RocksDB that wants to take the embedded key-value store world by storm

RocksDB is the secret sauce underlying many data management systems. Speedb is a drop-in replacement for RocksDB that offers a significant boost in performance and now powers Redis on Flash.

November 17, 2021 by George Anadiotis

SQL Server 2005 gets second service pack

Microsoft has released a second free service pack -- a large, recommended update -- for its popular SQL Server 2005 database application. The update makes SQL Server 2005 compatible with Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 suite, and adds a number of data compression, manageability and interoperability enhancements.

February 19, 2007 by Renai LeMay

GE Healthcare buys a Web strategy

Having GE behind the solution is not as big a deal as the GPhone, but it could have a similar impact in the imaging market. It means a major vendor is pushing a standards-based solution in a world dominated by proprietary offerings.

October 12, 2007 by Dana Blankenhorn

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Keeping your PIN private

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, CNET's Brian Cooley sees the latest HP technology available to keep personal identification numbers private using new encryption and printing systems.

April 16, 2003 by ZDNet Staff

Lexmark provides fraud protection with magnetic ink

Printer manufacturer Lexmark on Wednesday teamed up with Dataline, a Magnetic Ink Character Recognition specialist, to help companies automatically recognise fraudulent documents and more easily organise their financial paperworkThe earliest Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) systems were installed in the 1950s by banks and other financial institutions but Lexmark said smaller companies will now have access to the same technology at a fraction of the cost.

October 13, 2004 by Munir Kotadia