Fintech company Marquis is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that hackers stole their personal and financial ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated January 25 with even more analysis of the publicly ...

While vector databases still have many valid use cases, organizations including OpenAI are leaning on PostgreSQL to get things done. In a blog post on Thursday, OpenAI disclosed how it is using the ...

Extracting even a small slice of a database can land you in hot water—especially if you get caught by clever technical traps. The recent High Court decision in joined cases IDDQD Ltd v Codeberry & ...

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 ...

In England’s schools, children are not only pupils but also data subjects. From the moment they are born, a digital record begins to take shape — one that will follow them through nursery, primary ...

In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states. By ...

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...

Six U.S. cities — Austin, Texas; Boston; Dallas; Denver; Kansas City, Missouri; and Newport News, Virginia — are set to join the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance, Bloomberg announced last ...

The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system. The tool, which is being rolled out in phases, is designed to be used by state and local ...