Nexus Mods, a gaming site which has mods for 216 games, warned users about a “potential database breach” after a Reddit user was alerted by REN-ISAC that a “large number of student users had their ...

From the U.K.’s National Lottery hack to the news that Facebook bought stolen passwords on the black market to cross-reference with encrypted passwords, the password problems have not (and probably ...

Data encryption performs two purposes: it protects data against internal prying eyes, and it protects data against external threats (hacking, theft of backup tapes, etc.) Encryption in the database ...

A database containing sensitive information of about 90,000 German Mastercard "Priceless Specials" loyalty program members shared online following a breach discovered on August 20 was added to data ...

A database reportedly containing 6,840,339 unique user accounts from the recent StockX data breach is being sold and distributed online. Bad actors have stated that they have already begun to decrypt ...

A Sydney council appears to be one of the latest victims of the AntiSec campaign, with what seems to be the council's main website and prototype sister site databases being leaked by Anonymous. In a ...

The video uses the same, fairly standard text as found on the Pirate Bay dump: “We are releasing data to spread information, to allow the people to be heard and to know the corruption in their ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Despite the title, this is not a Professional Database Engineer Braindump in the traditional ...

Email addresses and encrypted passwords of around 97,000 users who tested early builds of the Bugzilla bug tracking software were left exposed for three months following a server migration. This is ...

The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...