Security News

Cop a load of this: 1TB of police body camera videos found lounging around public database
2019-07-01 22:18

Miscreants grabbed sensitive footage belonging to officers in Miami, elsewhere, it is feared In yet another example of absent security controls, an infosec biz claims it found a trove of sensitive...

UK's MoD is helping itself to cops' fingerprint database 'unlawfully', rules biometrics chief
2019-06-27 13:40

Paul Wiles: 'Clear and publicly accepted rules' needed for common data platform The Ministry of Defence has been searching the police national fingerprint database without a “clearly defined...

Cop awarded $585K after colleagues snooped on her via license database
2019-06-25 10:46

Krekelberg alleged that 58 fellow officers broke a federal privacy law by searching for her driver’s license data without any reason.

MongoDB 4.2 Introduces End-to-End Field Level Encryption for Databases
2019-06-20 15:18

At its developer conference held earlier this week in New York, the MongoDB team announced the latest version of its database management software that includes a variety of advanced features,...

Unsecured Database Leaves 8.4 TB of Email Metadata Exposed
2019-06-11 08:33

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Has Since Locked-Down Elasticsearch ServerA security researcher found an unsecured database belonging to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China that contained 8.4...

Unsecured Database Leaves 8.4TB of Email Metadata Exposed
2019-06-10 21:18

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Has Since Locked-Down Elasticsearch ServerA security researcher found an unsecured database belonging to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China that contained...

You. Quest and LabCorp. Explain these medical database super-hacks, say US senators as 425,000 more people hit
2019-06-06 23:09

Quest gets the dreaded sternly worded letter from Washington DC As healthcare companies come forward to confirm hackers would have been able to access millions of patients' personal information...

Bloody awful: Hell-thcare hackers break into databases of 20m medical test biz patients
2019-06-05 00:41

Outsourced silos of personal info raided, at least 200,000 payment details swiped Hackers have raided databases containing millions of medical test lab patients' personal and payment information,...

McAfee Database Security brings enhanced security to Amazon RDS
2019-06-03 00:30

McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, announced McAfee Database Security for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), strengthening the company’s relationship with Amazon Web...

Flipboard Resets Passwords After Database Intrusions
2019-05-30 14:18

Hashed and Salted Usernames and Passwords ExposedNews aggregator Flipboard has initiated a systemwide password reset affecting as many as 150 million users following two database intrusions....