Unprotected MongoDB instances remain an easy target for financially motivated hackers, with over 1,400 servers currently showing signs of compromise, threat management firm Flare reports. Ransacking ...

Almost half of US CDC databases due to be updated at least monthly were instead paused for significant time periods during 2025, the vast majority relating to vaccination-related topics, a new study ...

Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and ...

An audit of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) public databases found that nearly half of routinely updated federal health surveillance systems had stopped or delayed updates in ...

In 2025, CDC databases faced unexplained pauses, affecting public health decision-making and transparency, with vaccination data particularly impacted. Factors contributing to these pauses included ...

In response to continued uncertainty around the future of the MITRE-run Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, a European cybersecurity organization has launched the Global CVE Allocation ...

Abstract: NoSQL databases are the new breed of databases developed to overcome the drawbacks of RDBMS. The goal of NoSQL is to provide scalability, availability and meet other requirements of cloud ...

Two former federal contractors from Virginia have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to destroy government databases, according to the Justice Department. Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both 34, of ...

Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department systems have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy government ...

France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases. By ...