A distributed ledger technology (DLT) is basically a synchronized database duplicated across many PCs, therefore doing away with the need for a central authority. Rather, participants together approve ...

In the US, fired and laid-off workers often have their digital credentials deactivated before they learn about the loss of their jobs; indeed, the inability to log in to a corporate system may be the ...

A 34-year-old Virginia man was found guilty of conspiring to destroy dozens of government databases after getting fired from his job as a federal contractor. In 2016, Sohaib Akhter and his twin ...

SQLite has its place, but it’s not fit for every occasion. Learn how to set up install-free versions of MariaDB, PostgreSQL MongoDB, and Redis for your development needs. For any application that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two Virginia twin brothers were arrested for their alleged roles in deleting government databases hosted by a federal government contractor, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. Muneeb and ...

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 ...