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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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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, 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...

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....

Flipboard, a popular social sharing and news aggregator service used by over 150 million people, has disclosed that its databases containing account information of certain users have been hacked....