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Microsoft has ended all support for the Vista/Server 2008 codebase Standard support, ESU, and even PA timelines have all passed Windows Server 2012 is next, ESU ends October 2026 Microsoft has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The secret to the continuing availability of security patches ...

Abstract: Boneh and Franklin proposed one of the first constructions of the very elegant concept of identity-based encryption (IBE) two decades ago. Despite many research advances and its several ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

A group of financially motivated Turkish hackers targets Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) servers worldwide to encrypt the victims' files with Mimic (N3ww4v3) ransomware. These ongoing attacks are tracked as ...

The encryption handshake failed. Most likely due to no common encryption algorithms between the client and the server. SQL Server 11.0.5058 is not an up-to-date SQL Server 2012 instance. It'll be hard ...

Abstract: The server-aided encryption is widely used in encrypted deduplication systems to protect against brute-force attacks. However, it is non-trivial to update the master key managed by the key ...

Attempted to connect to the SQL server from my Laravel php application. I am getting the following error. SQLSTATE[01000]: [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can't open lib ...