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China Bans Intel, AMD Chips, Windows OS From Government ComputersChina Bans Intel, AMD Chips, Windows OS From Government Computers

China Bans Intel, AMD Chips, Windows OS From Government Computers

Beijing reportedly begins blocking the use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers, and sidelines Microsoft's Windows OS

10 months ago
Microsoft Warns Cloud Customers Of Potential BreachMicrosoft Warns Cloud Customers Of Potential Breach

Microsoft Warns Cloud Customers Of Potential Breach

Leaky cloud storage bucket. Thousands of Microsoft Azure customers are warned of data exposure risk in Redmond's Cosmos database

3 years ago
NHS Patient Database Plan To Proceed Despite ProtestsNHS Patient Database Plan To Proceed Despite Protests

NHS Patient Database Plan To Proceed Despite Protests

Government to activate centralised NHS Digital database of patient records next month in spite of criticism over lack of public…

4 years ago
Police Delete Database Containing 150,000 RecordsPolice Delete Database Containing 150,000 Records

Police Delete Database Containing 150,000 Records

Police database falls down some stairs. British coppers accidentally delete data on 150,000 people from the Police National Computer

4 years ago
Biometrics Database Breach Not So Big, Says SupremaBiometrics Database Breach Not So Big, Says Suprema

Biometrics Database Breach Not So Big, Says Suprema

'Errr yes it was' security researchers insist, estimating that 'large amounts of biometrics data' has been exposed

5 years ago
Choice Hotels Data Breach Affects 700,000 RecordsChoice Hotels Data Breach Affects 700,000 Records

Choice Hotels Data Breach Affects 700,000 Records

Does it ever stop? Another day, another breach, as hackers demand ransom for 700,000 customer records

5 years ago
Microsoft Deletes Facial Recognition Database Over Privacy Fears – ReportMicrosoft Deletes Facial Recognition Database Over Privacy Fears – Report

Microsoft Deletes Facial Recognition Database Over Privacy Fears – Report

Responding to privacy and ethical concerns, Microsoft deletes facial recognition training database

6 years ago
Database Contains Millions Of Dating App RecordsDatabase Contains Millions Of Dating App Records

Database Contains Millions Of Dating App Records

Database contains 42.5 million dating app profiles discovered that contains thousands of American records

6 years ago
Salesforce Customers Still Experiencing Issues After Major OutageSalesforce Customers Still Experiencing Issues After Major Outage

Salesforce Customers Still Experiencing Issues After Major Outage

The outage began on Friday after the deployment of a database script that inadvertently granted users broad permissions over companies'…

6 years ago
European Parliament Approves ‘Big Brother’ DatabaseEuropean Parliament Approves ‘Big Brother’ Database

European Parliament Approves ‘Big Brother’ Database

Critics say plans to link together existing identity databases across the EU may break Europe's own data protection laws

6 years ago
Russian Government Scheme Exposes Corporate DataRussian Government Scheme Exposes Corporate Data

Russian Government Scheme Exposes Corporate Data

More than 2,000 MongoDB databases operated by major domestic and foreign companies were left accessible under the government programme

6 years ago
Amazon Web Services’ DocumentDB Takes Aims At MongoDB WorkloadsAmazon Web Services’ DocumentDB Takes Aims At MongoDB Workloads

Amazon Web Services’ DocumentDB Takes Aims At MongoDB Workloads

Amazon's new managed non-relational database service raises questions about the future of open source in the cloud era

6 years ago
MongoDB 4.0 To Offer Multi-Document ACID TransactionsMongoDB 4.0 To Offer Multi-Document ACID Transactions

MongoDB 4.0 To Offer Multi-Document ACID Transactions

No need to choose relational databases anymore, says MongoDB, with upcoming addition of ACID transactions

7 years ago
HPE Expands Private Cloud With ‘GreenLake’ Workload PackagesHPE Expands Private Cloud With ‘GreenLake’ Workload Packages

HPE Expands Private Cloud With ‘GreenLake’ Workload Packages

The deals, covering areas such as database and big data analysis, give customers access to cloud-style pricing for remotely managed,…

7 years ago
Google Cloud Spanner Database Now Supports Multiple RegionsGoogle Cloud Spanner Database Now Supports Multiple Regions

Google Cloud Spanner Database Now Supports Multiple Regions

Google Cloud Spanner promises no more database compromises and 99.999 percent availability with no downtime

7 years ago

Startup Showcase: Snowflake

Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia talks about data warehousing, the company's origins and admiration for Amazon

7 years ago

Tech Quiz Of The Week: What Do You Know About Oracle?

ORACLE OPENWORLD: What do you know about the software house Larry built?

7 years ago

Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Can Patch And Adjust Itself

ORACLE OPENWORLD: Oracle CTO Larry Ellison details self-tuning, self-protecting cloud database and how customers can save money compared to AWS

7 years ago

Oracle Diary: Oracle ‘Simplifies’ Cloud Pricing With Licence Mobility & Universal Credits

ORACLE NEWS: Oracle promises its new pricing models will make it cheaper to move to the cloud without sacrificing features

7 years ago

Amazon Hopes AWS Macie Machine Learning Tool Will Stem Cloud Data Loss

AWS SUMMIT: Amazon has released Macie, an AI-powered tool aimed at securing data held in the cloud, following a string…

7 years ago

Dow Jones AWS S3 Server Error Leaks Personal Data Of 2.2 Million Customers

The exposed data includes names, addresses and the last four digits of credit card numbers

7 years ago

Tales In Tech History: Pick Operating System

Best OS you never heard of? Pick OS was initially developed to manage spare parts for attack helicopter during Vietnam…

8 years ago

Hadoop Databases Expose 5 Petabytes Of Data To The Internet

Unsecured Hadoop databases are less numerous than MongoDB instances, but expose 200 times more data, research finds

8 years ago

1.4bn Emails Exposed As Huge Spam Operation Fails To Password Protect Documents

Spammergate: Researchers discover vast database of email addresses and suggestions of cybercrime against spam kings sending 1bn messages a day

8 years ago

Google Cloud Spanner Throws Down Relational Database Challenge

Watch out MySQL, as Google offers a scalable relational database for high transaction workloads

8 years ago

Belgian Telco Proximus Rolls Out IoT Network With MongoDB

Proximus' development team explains how it found a database to meet its IoT project needs.

8 years ago

MongoDB CTO Discusses The Database Evolution

INTERVIEW: Eliot Horowitz, MongoDB CTO & co-founder talks IoT and the latest database trends ahead of the launch of MongoDB…

8 years ago

SAP Launches HANA 2 And Developer-Focused Cloud Microservices

SAP appears to be courting enterprise developers and app makers

8 years ago

Yandex Is The First Russian Tech Firm To Join The CVE

The company wants to be transparent in how it discovers and protects against cyber security flaws

8 years ago

Adult FriendFinder Sex And Dating Website Allegedly Hacked Again

Surely not? Hackers claim to have penetrated (ahem) online sex and swinger website yet again

8 years ago