Latest cumulative updates focus on stability, security and performance improvements across SQL Server deployments.

Ghost CMS SQL injection campaign has compromised 700+ websites — including Harvard University, Oxford University, and DuckDuckGo — using a CVSS 9.4 flaw to inject ClickFix malware lures that trick ...

Linux and RDP have had performance and security issues for as long as I can remember and Apache Guacamole solves most of them ...

Microsoft publishes SQL Server 2025 Release candidate with TLS 1.3, Ubuntu 24.04 support and many AI improvements. Reading processes are up to 50 times faster, but an important restriction remains ...

Microsoft says it will start blocking legacy TLS connections for POP and IMAP email clients in Exchange Online starting in July 2026. The Transport Layer Security (TLS) cryptographic protocol protects ...

When running the SQL Connectivity Checker in a containerized environment with no internet access (outbound HTTP blocked), the TLS handshake phase is extremely slow (30+ seconds) and times out. This ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

Transport-layer security is more effective than its predecessor SSL, and its latest version - TLS 1.3 - improves both privacy and performance. Transport Layer Security 1.3 was officially finalized by ...