A zero-day SQL-injection vulnerability in Metabase Cloud is under exploitation in the wild, and it could spell trouble for many downstream organizations. Metabase, which provides AI-driven business ...

The incident, detected on July 27, 2026, shows how insecure public-facing applications can allow attackers to move from a database query to full control of the underlying operating system. The initial ...

Attackers broke into an organization's Oracle database through a SQL injection flaw in a public-facing web application, then installed a post-exploitation toolkit without writing an executable to disk ...

Attackers chained SQL injection with Oracle’s embedded Java capabilities to hide a custom post-exploitation toolkit inside the database and gain SYSTEM-level access to the underlying Windows server.

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Having built a SQLite-compatible database from scratch in Rust, cloud database provider Turso is attempting something more ambitious: a Postgres-compatible implementation on the same foundation. "I ...

It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data ...

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Prototyping is my favorite part of programming. I like building new stuff and getting things working. It’s no surprise, then, that I am a big fan of MongoDB and NoSQL in general. Don’t get me wrong: I ...

In this post, we will see how to install PostgreSQL on your Windows client computer and how you can connect and use it. PostgreSQL, commonly called Postgres, is an open-source relational database ...