A data breach at robo-advisor Betterment exposed the personal information of nearly 1.4 million customers, according to a Thursday update from breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. Betterment ...

The permanent, personal data is some of the most sensitive that the government handles due to the national security risks. The National Institutes of Health and other agencies tasked with protecting ...

Two malicious extensions in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers. Both extensions are ...

Have you ever spent hours wrestling with messy spreadsheets, only to end up questioning your sanity over rogue spaces or mismatched text entries? If so, you’re not alone. Data cleaning is one of the ...

A hacker has taken responsibility for last week's University of Pennsylvania "We got hacked" email incident, saying it was a far more extensive breach that exposed data on 1.2 million donors and ...

ChatGPT’s mobile app growth may have hit its peak, according to a new analysis of download trends and daily active users provided by the third-party app intelligence firm Apptopia. Its estimates ...

Personal Data Servers are the persistent data stores of the Bluesky network. It houses a user's data, stores credentials, and if a user is kicked off the Bluesky network the Personal Data Server admin ...

Connex Credit Union in New Haven, Connecticut, recently disclosed a data breach involving the personal information of 172,000 people. The breach, which Connex discovered as "unusual activity" on its ...

The evolving landscape of data architecture has shifted in the past two years with the arrival of AI capabilities -- fundamentally changing how organizations evaluate, justify, and implement their ...

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