The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

CISA has ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch a critical GeoServer vulnerability now actively exploited in XML External Entity (XXE) injection attacks. In such attacks, an XML input containing a ...

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The introduction of Spring annotations such as @Bean and @Component, which greatly simplify how to provision and autowire Spring managed beans, triggered a mass exodus from XML-based Spring ...

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This paper is to study how Extensible Markup Language (XML) code injection attacks are widespread over web and cloud applications, databases, and multiple types of systems within major corporations ...

Abstract: Online attacks are outcomes of cyber vulnerabilities. XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a self-descriptive markup language, and XML eXternal Entity injection (XXE) is a well-recognised web ...

I did not bother to figure out what specific dependency this was failing on, but if I search for ISO-8859-1 in my project, the first result is javax.activation-1.2.0.pom. * Exception is: ...

Xerces XML SAX parser factory that configures XML Readers with a grammar pool for caching grammars (DTDs, XSDs) during parsing. This parser factory is designed to be usable from Saxon's command line ...

The security world held our collective breaths early this week for the big OpenSSL vulnerability announcement. Turns out it’s two separate issues, both related to punycode handling, and they’ve been ...