Database

A security firm handling employee fingerprint identification for companies worldwide has exposed more than 2 million bits of data, including 76,000…

Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition startup that’s gobbled up more than three billion of our photos by scraping social media sites and…

Microsoft on Wednesday said it conducted an investigation into a security breach of one of its customer databases and found records could have been…

Indian Government is planning to roll out a Central Equipment Identity Register to counter mobile theft. The move has been taken by the Indian…

Yet another organisation has been spotted copying important data to Elasticsearch cloud storage without remembering to secure it. Last week, it was…

In the predictions game, it’s time for us to bat clean-up once more. Following Big on Data bro Andrew Brust’s roundup of AI-related predictions from…

Marriott International said on Friday hackers stole about 500 million records from its Starwood Hotels reservation system in an attack that began…

A massive database managing millions of text messages was reportedly discovered unsecured, exposing sensitive information such as password resets…

Facebook on 23 october released a new tool called the Ad Archive Report which is a searchable database giving users a look into the information about…

Editor’s Note: This article on WordPress database optimization was originally published on June 20, 2014. It was updated on September 29, 2018. If…