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.
Redmondmag.com

Microsoft March Patch Tuesday: 8 Critical Bulletins and 2 Zero-Days

Microsoft's March 2026 Patch Tuesday includes fixes for 83 vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Office, SQL Server, Azure and .NET.
IEEE

Quantifying and Mitigating Errors in Estimating Downward Surface Shortwave Radiation Caused by Cloud Mask Data

Abstract: Cloud mask (CM) data are indispensable for estimating downward surface shortwave radiation (DSSR). Most DSSR products are generated using CM data derived from passive satellite observations ...
Security Boulevard

Cross-Platform Referential Integrity with Deterministic Data Masking

Masking copies of production data is very common in large organizations for several use cases. First is using the data to feed their application development. Data analytics teams also need data to ...
IEEE

Enhancing Federated Learning Efficiency for Mask Detection: A Case Study on Non-IID Data and Training Configurations

Abstract: This study investigates the effects of varying federated learning (FL) arrangements and non-independent and identically distributed (Non-IID) data partitions on model performance. The ...