Tag archive: database

Database giant Oracle has rejected a court-ordered award of $272 million in damages from rival database vendor SAP, saying it would rather face another trial. The choice stretches out a dispute between the two companies that stretches all the way back to 2007—and could potentially be worth over a billion dollars to Oracle, if it's proven right. Back in 2010, a jury awarded Oracle a stunning $1.3 billion in damages in its suit against SAP.… Read More

In what appears to have been a massive mistake, the entire user database of Groupon's Indian subsidiary Sosasta.com has been published online and indexed by Google, reports Risky.biz. Included in the searchable database are all the email addresses and passwords of Sosasta's 300,000 users. Whoops… Australian security consultant Daniel Grzelak first discovered the substantial cache of login credentials as part of his research… Read More

There were outcries when the British government first proposed a giant database covering all phone calls, e-mails and Internet use in the country. But according to an article in the Guardian, a upcoming white paper on the database is including the option to send the databse out for tender to be run by private companies. The database, whose costs could reach £12 billion, wouldn’t record content, but would have details of sites… Read More

A coordinated attack on Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee in the past month may have compromised a database full of over a thousand names, social security numbers and birth dates. The lab announced news of the hacking on Thursday, calling it a “sophisticated cyber attack.” According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, the lab’s staff were blanketed with “phishing” e-mails, which bait people… Read More

Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive, the online arm of The Washington Post Company, yesterday announced the launch of a new online database which allows users to keep track of the voting records of their congressional representative. The Congressional Votes Database Tool tracks the full voting records of Congress from 1991 through the current day. The database can be searched by several categories, including by senator or… Read More

Websense, Inc. the world's leading provider of employee internet management solutions, today announced that the company's best-of-breed Websense(R) Master Database now contains more than 8 million websites. Working in conjunction with the company's award-winning employee internet management software, Websense Enterprise(R), the Master Database provides sophisticated filtering options to optimize employees' use of… Read More

The database being assembled by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Assn. is expected to include about 75% of the 163 million mobile phones in the United States, making looking up a wireless number as easy as dialing 411.   The association is pitching the directory as a boon for real estate agents and other on-the-go professionals who want people to be able to find their mobile numbers. But privacy advocates,… Read More