Risk management is essential to the success of every company In business, risk is the likelihood that a loss will occur if a threat exposes a vulnerability. An organization must take risks to thrive, but must also recognize that risk cannot be ignored. The key is to understand threats and vulnerabilities, and then mitigate the threat to vulnerabilities… Read More »
Database Threats and Security Measures to Protect Against them The following are a few well-known threats to database and Database Management Systems (DBMS), and mitigating strategies used to help protect against them. Excessive privileges. When users or applications granted database access privileges that exceed what is needed to complete tasks opens the opportunity to abuse privileges for malicious… Read More »
Adobe Flash Player Vulnerabilities Zaharia (2015) states that over 3 million developers use Flash to create interactive content. Flash is primarily used to display text, graphics, and animations for video games and applications, allows audio and video streaming, and it can capture mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera input. Flash is deeply integrated into web browsers and is used… Read More »