Articles on Security
Security Updates coming to Kibana on Compose
In keeping up with the latest Kibana and Elasticsearch security updates to protect all our Compose for Elasticsearch users, w…
New Compose PostgreSQL updates address security issues: Noteworthy Extra
Last week saw the release of PostgreSQL updates which included fixes for two security issues. These issues are of concern as…
Redis Security Updates at Compose - June 2018
TL;DR There are new versions of Redis available on Compose, 4.0.10 and 3.2.12, which addresses security vulnerabilities in Re…
NewsBits: PostgreSQL is top of the databases and all about Meltdown and Spectre
Welcome to NewsBits where you'll find the database, cloud, and developer news from around the net for the end of 2017 to the…
Time's up for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on Compose
TL:DR; Support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will end on Compose on March 1st, 2018. All users of Compose SSL-enabled services are affe…
Securing Notebooks on IBM's Data Science Experience
Exposing sensitive information in Jupyter notebooks is a serious concern if you intend to share them. In this article, we'll…
Creating an AWS VPC and Secured Compose MongoDB with Terraform
Connecting to Compose MongoDB from Amazon VPC? Using Terraform for orchestration? In this Write Stuff article, Yamil Asusta s…
NewsBits: Cloudbleed, SHAttered, Drones, PostgreSQL and JDBC, Node's async and Rails 5.1 betas
Newsbits for the week ending February 24th - Cloudbleed sees Cloudflare leak secrets, SHA1 collisions made real, Drones vs Ai…
MongoDB and Ransomware
Recent reports in the news of MongoDB databases being hacked are not new but the ransoms demanded for the return of data is a…
Do you know why Compose proxies database connections?
TL;DR: We use proxies to enable SSL, High Availability and Whitelisting. Because we care. Observant users of Compose will hav…
Introducing FIDO Universal 2nd Factor Authentication
To better help you ensure your account is safe and secure with Compose, we've expanded our authentication system to support F…
Compose's Little Bits #16 - PostgreSQL, RethinkDB, LIGO, htop
PostgreSQL updates and advice, RethinkDB on Windows, SQL querying LIGO data, CSV on the Web, Parse updates, htop, securityhea…
PLV8 for PostgreSQL and CIDR for all
We've been making some small, but significant, enhancements to your database experience at Compose, so we thought now would b…
We're Applying The Redis Security Fix Now
Redis users on Compose are being updated to Redis 2.8.21. Although it is a minor version update from 2.8.20 it includes a fix…
Elasticsearch Security Update - Groovy Scripting Dropped
Last month, Elasticsearch disclosed a security vulnerability in the database's Groovy dynamic scripting and the sandbox desi…