Lately, there has been a rising trend in the number of incidents where databases have been compromised. There have been quite a few significant data breaches since the start of the year. Utilizing ...

Database security has become one of the most pressing challenges for businesses today. The complexity of keeping data private and secure grows daily. The data in these databases often contain personal ...

As the volume of digital information being produced across industries grows at record rates, databases are becoming more integral to organizations than ever before. These data stores contain the ...

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 ...

Do you feel confident about the security of your database environment? Because databases may contain sensitive or regulated information, critical applications or stored functions, ensuring database ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frank Bisignano arrives to his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 25, 2025 in ...

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social ...

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