MongoDB warns of a critical security vulnerability affecting recent versions. Admins should patch immediately.

[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 "robustness and security" of Ireland's crime-solving DNA database will be "kept under active review" by an oversight group tasked with monitoring its operation and security. This comes as a top ...

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 ...

Database security is crucial to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data. It builds customer trust, helps comply with regulations, and reduces the risks associated with ...

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 ...

People trust password managers, and when that trust isn’t upheld, it can prove costly — as LastPass has just discovered.

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 ...

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 ...