It has been a rough start to the year for password security. A massive database containing 149 million stolen logins and passwords was found publicly exposed online. The data included credentials tied ...

Last week, social and news media was abuzz with allegations that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers had access to a shadowy database full of information on protestors. During a ...

Jeremiah Fowler, a veteran security researcher, recently stumbled upon 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling about 96GB of raw data. There was no encryption… and it didn’t even have a ...

The continued existence of lotteries is a demonstration of how little intuition humans have for probability. On some level, we all know that the chances of actually winning a life-changing payout are ...

Californians can now stop data brokers from selling their personal information through a new state program. The Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, or DROP, is a one-stop website that allows ...

Starting Thursday, Californians can request more than 500 different data brokers to delete their personal information. Those brokers collect and sell personal information, like browsing history and ...

Amazon.com Inc.’s data center operation is much larger than commonly understood, totaling more than 900 facilities in more than 50 countries, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg and ...

With agentic AI, the database must evolve from a passive ledger to an active reasoning engine that informs, guides, and enables autonomous action. For decades, the database has been the silent partner ...

Since the Supreme Court’s opinion in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 594 U.S. 413 (2021), litigants and courts alike have struggled to determine whether certain intangible harms are “concrete, ...

Security-conscious readers probably already use the data breach alert site Have I Been Pwned, but a new Proton website is aiming to alert you at an earlier stage with what the company says will be ...

People and companies get hacked all the time. Corporate secrets, credit card numbers, password to your email, your medical information—even your Netflix login might get stolen. But where does that ...