Slow Wi-Fi is a modern bugbear for many people, but thankfully we might soon be cranking those speeds up. Scientists at University College London (UCL) have set a new world record in wireless data ...

It's 2025, and your data still isn't safe in the hands of corporations that should know a lot better than to store it in an unencrypted database. And yet, stories like these continue to send shivers ...

Two thousand years ago, physicians in Egypt documented their patients’ symptoms and treatments on papyrus scrolls. These early medical records served a simple, localized purpose: they supported direct ...

Data breaches keep happening, and too often they come down to companies failing to take cybersecurity seriously. Some of the biggest breaches have been caused by negligence, and now there’s another ...

Deepseek logo is screened on a mobile phone. On Jan. 29, cybersecurity researchers at Wiz Research revealed that DeepSeek, a Chinese AI-driven data analytics firm, had suffered a significant data leak ...

Update on 10/20/24 added to the bottom of this article. Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication ...

In the past decade, healthcare data has become one of the most sought-after targets in cybercrime. From insurers to clinics, every player in the ecosystem handles some form of sensitive information.

Dr. Bonde Thylstrup studies data loss at the University of Copenhagen. Mr. Ovenden is the head of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. Researchers logging onto the website Data.gov in ...