Security News
A Minnesota man admitted Thursday that he hacked into state government databases in 2017 as an act of retaliation after the acquittal of an officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a 2016...
Matthew Green has a super-interesting blog post about information leakage from encrypted databases. It describes the recent work by Paul Grubbs, Marie-Sarah Lacharité, Brice Minaud, and Kenneth G....
Breakaway MPs accused of making off with info The UK's Labour Party has been forced to lock down access to membership databases and campaign tools over concerns the info was being sucked up by...
A company operating a facial recognition system in China has exposed millions of residents’ personal information online.
MapR Technologies, provider of the industry’s next generation data platform for AI and Analytics, announced the immediate availability of MapR Ecosystem Pack (MEP) 6.1, giving developers and data...
DIY giant B&Q reportedly suffered an Elasticsearch database breach this week that gave up information on around 70,000 shoplifters.
But thousands opting out in 'backlash', says privacy group HMRC's database of Brits' voiceprints has grown by 2 million since June – but campaign group Big Brother Watch has claimed success as...
Online gamblers lose their private data as yet another unsecured Elasticsearch database is discovered.
A researcher has discovered an exposed database containing gigabytes of call logs, SMS data, and internal system credentials belonging to US Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service provider VOIPo.com.
VOIPO acknowledged that a development server had been accidentally left publicly accessible, and took the server offline.