One of our developers wants our production database to be dumped hourly "just in case." It probably is fine now, but at some point a database grows to a size where this would impact performance or the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A database containing over 26 million unique LiveJournal user accounts, including plain text passwords, is being shared for free on multiple hacker forums. For some time, rumors have been circulating ...

Website defacements? Database dumps? Mysterious files? Here's how to tell if your Web application has been hacked -- and how to secure it once and for all When customers interact with your business, ...