A database used to track NYPD officer profiles contained security flaws that would have allowed a skilled-enough hacker to add, remove or modify data entries and insert potentially malicious files ...

The Chinese generative artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek has had a meteoric rise this week, stoking rivalries and generating market pressure for United States–based AI companies, which in turn ...

All the careful database security isn’t worth much when a trusted application behaves badly, especially when the trusted application has access to all the data. One common problem is SQL injection, an ...

Recent years have witnessed widespread use of computers and their interconnecting networks. This demands additional computer security and privacy measures to protect the information and relevant ...

Though database security best practices have circulated the conference circuit for years now and existing database security tools are now mature, today's typical enterprise is still far behind in ...

Background check service National Public Data confirms that hackers breached its systems after threat actors leaked a stolen database with millions of social security numbers and other sensitive ...

[The following is excerpted from "What Every Database Administrator Should Know About Security," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] To say that there is ...

The Trump administration yesterday issued a lengthier denial of a whistleblower’s allegation that DOGE officials at the Social Security Administration (SSA) copied the agency’s database to an insecure ...

The complaint accuses DOGE of bypassing security protocols to move Americans’ sensitive personal data outside federal oversight and onto an insecure AWS cloud instance, potentially violating ...

ATLANTA – Monster.com, TJX, Pfizer-the list of companies and organizations affected by database breaches grows bigger and badder every week, but most enterprises remain focused on the perimeter and ...

Department of Government Efficiency members stored a copy of a massive Social Security Administration database in a “vulnerable” custom cloud environment, putting more than 300 million people’s ...