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Mystery Database Owner Exposes 191 Million US Voter Records Online

A security researcher has discovered a database of 191 million American voters including personal information unprotected on the internet due to misconfiguration, according to media reports. On December 20 DataBreaches.net was contacted by Chris Vickery, who provided a screen shot of his own information from a database with over 191…

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Host Patches Hello Kitty Site Vulnerability Exposing 3 Million Accounts

There is no evidence of theft from a database exposed for weeks and containing account information for 3.3 million fans of Hello Kitty, according to Hong Kong-based web host Sanrio Digital. Sanrio patched the vulnerability in three servers which made a database of member information accessible to anyone who (more…)

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Oracle Announces Cloud Growth, StackEngine Acquisition, and Austin Cloud Campus

Oracle acquired Docker operationalization start-up StackEngine on Friday, and followed up on Tuesday by announcing plans to build a cutting-edge cloud campus in Austin, Texas. A team of recent graduates and technical professionals will be employed on the campus, which is designed to attract top millennial talent to (more…)

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VMware Enhances IT Blueprinting and Hybrid Cloud Management Capabilities in vRealize Updates

VMware announced the general availability of two key updates to its vRealize Suite, VMware vRealize Automation 7 and VMware vRealize Business Standard 7, which let organizations standardize and automate resource delivery across a hybrid cloud. vRealize Automation 7 two vRealize Business Standard 7, combined with updates (more…)

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New TLDs Growing as Over 3 Million Domain Names Added in Q3: VeriSign

Over 3 million domain names were registered in a strong third quarter 2015 for the domain business, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief by VeriSign. There are now 299 million registered names among all TLDs following a quarterly rise of 1.1 percent and year-over-year increase of (more…)

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Microsoft Acquires SQL-Based Big-Data Specialist Metanautix to Drive Business Insights Across Silos

Late last week, Microsoft announced it acquired Metanautix, a big data analytics company whose technology allows different data types (such as documents, audio files, images, and videos) and across different silos to be aggregated into petabyte-scale SQL databases.

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Controversial Cybersecurity Regulations Added to US Budget Bill Up for Friday Vote

The provisions contained in the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (or “CISA”) that passed the US Senate in October could be closer to becoming law since the 1,729 pages of CISA regulations were newly included in the 2,000-page-plus omnibus budget bill (PDF) introduced this week by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.

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Cloud Challenges Persist for UK Businesses

Cloud adoption has become nearly universal among UK businesses, but achieving cost benefits is proving challenging for many, according to research released Wednesday by managed cloud service provider Adapt. Almost 90 percent of UK businesses have adopted cloud services, according to “Cloud Challenges – a Best Practice Research Report (more…)

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