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A recently detected attack campaign is attempting to ensnare Elasticsearch clusters into a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet, Trend Micro reports. The multi-stage attacks leverage...

Data on millions of people stolen from the Bulgarian government has already popped up on hacker trading forums.

Yak app still cleaning up after four-year-old cyber-break-in Slack says a 2015 database theft is to blame for a large-scale reset of stolen passwords.…

The cloud-based database security market is expected to register a CAGR of 19.5% over the forecast period 2019-2024, according to ResearchAndMarkets. With the increasing adoption of Big Data...

Data Apparently Originated in a GitHub RepositorySecurity researchers have found yet another unsecured database that left personal data exposed to the internet. In this latest case, a MongoDB...

And now he's a convicted criminal – but still in uniform A serving Metropolitan police officer who illegally accessed a police database to monitor a criminal investigation into his own conduct has...

Researchers Say Company Promptly Fixed LeakSensitive information, including credit card and phone numbers, was left exposed to the internet on an unsecured database belonging to Fieldwork...

Migrations are now the number one priority for database professionals, a new Redgate report reveals. Cloud usage is on the up, for example, with 44% of organizations now using SQL Server on VMs in...

Privacy advocates may question the use of genealogy data in forensics, but defense attorneys in this case did not.

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...