database News of 12/09/19

Vistaprint Left A Customer Service Database Unprotected, Exposing Calls, Chats And Emails

A security researcher has found an exposed database on the internet belonging to online printing giant Vistaprint. Security researcher Oliver Hough discovered the unencrypted database last week. There was no password on the database, allowing ...

Google Cloud Launches Bare Metal Solution

Google Cloud today announced the launch of a new bare metal service, dubbed the Bare Metal Solution . We aren’t talking about bare metal servers offered directly by Google Cloud here, though. Instead, we’re talking about a solution ...

‘Magic: The Gathering’ Game Maker Exposed 452,000 Players’ Account Data

The maker of Magic: The Gathering has confirmed that a security lapse exposed the data on hundreds of thousands of game players. The game’s developer, the Washington-based Wizards of the Coast, left a database backup file in a public Amazon ...

neo4j Introduces New Cloud Service To Simplify Building A Graph Database

Neo4j , a popular graph database, is available as an open source product for anyone to download and use. Its enterprise product aimed at larger organizations is growing fast, but the company recognized there was a big market in between those two ...

Amazon Migrates More Than 100 Consumer Services From Oracle To AWS Databases

AWS and Oracle love to take shots at each other, but as much as Amazon has knocked Oracle over the years, it was forced to admit that it was in fact a customer. Today in a company blog post , the company announced it was shedding Oracle for ...

Twitch Acquires Gaming Database Site IGDB To Improve Its Search And Discovery Features

Amazon-owned Twitch has made a small but strategic acquisition designed to improve its search capabilities and better direct viewers to exactly the right content. The company is acquiring IGDB , the Internet Games Database (no relation to ...

ScyllaDB Takes On Amazon With New DynamoDB Migration Tool

There are a lot of open source databases out there, and ScyllaDB , a NoSQL variety, is looking to differentiate itself by attracting none other than Amazon users. Today, it announced a DynamoDB migration tool to help Amazon customers move to its ...

An Anonymous Hentai Porn Site Exposed Over A Million Users’ Emails

A popular hentai porn site that promises anonymity to its 1.1 million users left a user database exposed without a password, allowing anyone to identify users by their email addresses. You might not have heard of Luscious.net unless you’re ...

Cockroach Labs Announces $55m Series C To Battle Industry Giants

Cockroach Labs , makers of CockroachDB, sits in a tough position in the database market. On one side, it has traditional database vendors like Oracle, and on the other there’s AWS and its family of databases. It takes some good technology and ...

Aavgo Security Lapse Exposed Hotel Bookings

A security lapse at a hotel management startup has exposed hotel bookings and guests’ personal information. The security lapse was resolved Monday after TechCrunch reached out to Aavgo, a hospitality tech company based in San Francisco, which ...

Snowflake Co-Founder And President Of Product Benoit Dageville Is Coming To TC Sessions: Enterprise

When it comes to a cloud success story, Snowflake checks all the boxes. It’s a SaaS product going after industry giants. It has raised bushels of cash and grown extremely rapidly — and the story is continuing to develop for the cloud ...

Thousands Of Medical Injury Claim Records Exposed By Ad Agency

An internet advertising company specializing in helping law firms sign up potential clients has exposed close to 150,000 records from a database that was left unsecured. The database contained submissions as part of a lead-generation effort by X ...

Apollo Raises $22m For Its GraphQL Platform

Apollo , a San Francisco-based startup that provides a number of developer and operator tools and services around the GraphQL query language , today announced that it has raised a $22 million growth funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and ...

Microsoft And Oracle Link Up Their Clouds

Microsoft and Oracle announced a new alliance today that will see the two companies directly connect their clouds over a direct network connection so that their users can then move workloads and data seamlessly between the two. This alliance ...

Fluree Grabs $4.7m Seed Round To Build Blockchain-Based Database

Fluree , a North Carolina startup that wants to bring the immutability of blockchain to the database, announced a $4.7 million seed round today led by ​4490 Ventures​ with participation from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund​. As CEO ...

Security Lapse Exposed Private Theta Photos

Millions of photos taken by Theta camera owners — some private and unlisted — were left exposed after security researchers found an open database without a password. Noam Rotem and Ran Locar found the leaky database and reported the exposure to ...

Millions Of Instagram Influencers Had Their Private Contact Data Scraped And Exposed

A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The database, hosted by Amazon Web Services, was left exposed and without a password allowing anyone to ...

Huawei Launches AI-Backed Database To Target Enterprise Customers

China’s Huawei is making a serious foray into the enterprise business market after it unveiled a new database management product on Wednesday, putting it in direct competition with entrenched vendors like IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. The ...

Microsoft Brings Azure SQL Database To The Edge (And Arm)

Microsoft today announced an interesting update to its database lineup with the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge, a new tool that brings the same database engine that powers Azure SQL Database in the cloud to edge computing devices, including, ...

Couchbase’S Mobile Database Gets Built-In ML And Enhanced Synchronization Features

Couchbase , the company behind the eponymous NoSQL database, announced a major update to its mobile database today that brings some machine learning smarts, as well as improved synchronization features and enhanced stats and logging support to the ...