The news aggregation site, Flipboard, has disclosed that their databases had been hacked and unauthorized users have potentially downloaded the data contained within them. This data included the ...

On January 1, 2014, an anonymous user announced the release of SnapchatDB and 4.6 million usernames and matched phone numbers in a Hacker News post. The Snapchat accounts - even those marked 'private' ...

Microsoft has addressed a chain of critical vulnerabilities found in the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server that could let malicious users escalate privileges and gain access to other ...

A new website allows Internet users to check if their usernames and passwords were exposed in some of the largest data breaches in recent years. The site is called haveibeenpwned.com and was created ...

Query processing and user interaction form the cornerstone of modern database systems, providing the framework for translating high‐level user queries into efficient, actionable operations. As data ...

Databases belonging to popular electronics retailer Gearbest were apparently left exposed by the firm. A white hat security team claimed that over 1.5 million records were accessible, including login ...

Another day, another data rupture involving Facebook. The social network may have inadvertently exposed millions of phone numbers related to people's Facebook accounts, according to a report on ...

Update, (07/04): Appthority has responded to our questions regarding apps with unsecured Firebase databases. It said users can only figure out if they’re affected by using corporate solutions, which ...

In a satisfaction survey comparing features from Oracle, IBM DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase Adaptive Server, 1,400 developers were most satisfied by ...