DEF CON On Saturday at DEF CON, security boffin Micah Lee explained just how he published data from TeleMessage, the supposedly secure messaging app used by White House officials, which in turn led to ...

From the U.K.’s National Lottery hack to the news that Facebook bought stolen passwords on the black market to cross-reference with encrypted passwords, the password problems have not (and probably ...

Singapore's largest online grocery store Lazada Redmart has suffered a data breach after 1.1 million user accounts were put up for sale on a hacker forum. The database dump containing sensitive ...

A Sydney council appears to be one of the latest victims of the AntiSec campaign, with what seems to be the council's main website and prototype sister site databases being leaked by Anonymous. In a ...

The video uses the same, fairly standard text as found on the Pirate Bay dump: “We are releasing data to spread information, to allow the people to be heard and to know the corruption in their ...

Data encryption performs two purposes: it protects data against internal prying eyes, and it protects data against external threats (hacking, theft of backup tapes, etc.) Encryption in the database ...