built the Epstein database

The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most ...

Microsoft Confirms SQL Zero-Day Security Vulnerability—Here’s The Fix

Microsoft has confirmed that a hacker who successfully exploits a zero-day SQL vulnerability could gain system administrator privileges. Here’s how to fix it.
Security Boulevard

LeakyLooker: Hacking Google Cloud’s Data via Dangerous Looker Studio Vulnerabilities

Tenable Research revealed "LeakyLooker," a set of nine novel cross-tenant vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio. These flaws could have let attackers exfiltrate or modify data across Google services ...
InfoQ

Google BigQuery Previews Cross-Region SQL Queries for Distributed Data

Google Cloud has recently announced the preview of a global queries feature for BigQuery. The new option lets developers run SQL queries across data stored in different geographic regions without ...
IEEE

AES-SQL: Text-to-SQL Based on Adaptive Prompting and Intelligent Example Selection

Abstract: Large Language Models have greatly enhanced the Text-to-SQL task. In this paper, we propose AES-SQL, an LLM-based approach based on few-shot Learning. We adjust the structure of the adaptive ...
IEEE

Secure Acceleration of Aggregation Queries Over Homomorphically Encrypted Databases

Abstract: Recent advancements in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) have significantly impacted encrypted database management, particularly in secure data querying. However, FHE poses notable ...