Databases Stories for 2016

Nevada Website Bug Leaks Thousands of Medical Marijuana Dispensary Applications 55
Twitter Blocks Government 'Spy Centers' From Accessing User Data 46
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft Will Create 'Hash' Database To Remove Extremist Content 262
California State Senator Introduces Bill That Would Mandate Reporting of 'Superbug' Infections, Deaths 75
Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump 588
MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle 153
Chemical Traces On Your Phone Reveal Your Lifestyle, Scientists Say 80
IMDb Sues California To Overturn Law Forcing Them To Remove Actors' Ages 68
Two Critical MySQL Bugs Discovered 70
Half of American Adults Are In a Face-Recognition Database 64
4Chan Hackers Claim To Have Remotely Wiped John Podesta's iPhone and iPad 269
BuzzFeed Hacked By OurMine As Group Accuses Site of Publishing 'Fake News' 27
Yahoo Insiders Believe Hackers Could Have Stolen Over 1 Billion Accounts 125
OVH Hosting Suffers From Record 1Tbps DDoS Attack Driven By 150K Devices 116
California Launches Mandatory Data Collection For Police Use-of-Force 117
Accenture Patents a Blockchain-Editing Tool 87
Guccifer 2.0 Releases More DNC Documents 333
World Anti-Doping Agency Says It Was Hacked By Russia 97
Google's DeepMind Develops New Speech Synthesis AI Algorithm Called WaveNet 46
Israeli DDoS Provider 'vDOS' Earned $600,000 In Two Years 74
Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower 223
100 Arrested In New York Thanks To Better Face-Recognition Technology 85
Ashley Madison Security Protocols Violated Canada, Austrialia Privacy Laws 29
Twitch Acquires Curse, Its Sites, Tools For Gamers, and Databases 25
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? 674
Internal 'Set Of Blunders' Crashed Australia's Census Site 92
Linux Trojan Mines For Cryptocurrency Using Misconfigured Redis Servers 62
6 Million Americans Exposed To High Levels of Chemicals In Drinking Water, Says Study 166
Is The US Social Security Site Still Vulnerable To Identity Theft? 46
Car Thieves Arrested After Using Laptop and Malware To Steal More Than 30 Jeeps 215
Pokemon Go DDoS Attacks Postponed As PoodleCorp Botnet Suffers Security Breach 97
EU Plans To Create Database of Bitcoin Users With Identities and Wallet Addresses 130
'High-Risk Vulnerabilities' In Oracle File-Processing SDKs Affect Major Third-Party Products 11
Ex Cardinal's Scouting Director Chris Correa Sentenced To 46 Months For Hacking Astros' Computer System 42
Hacking Group 'OurMine' Claims Credit For Attack On Pokemon Go Servers 48
First Open Source-Based Database Completes U.S. Security Review 49
Ex-Google Engineer Launches Blockchain-Based System For Banks 62
Leaky Database Leaves Oklahoma Police, Bank Vulnerable To Intruders 16
FBI Has Collected 430,000 Iris Scans In 'Pilot Program' 32
Researchers Find Over 6,000 Compromised Redis Installations 30
FBI Director: Guccifer Admitted He Lied About Hacking Hillary Clinton's Email 289
Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling 393
DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 801
Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules 165
Congressman Wants Ransomware Attacks To Trigger Breach Notifications 73
2 Million-Person Terror Database Leaked Online 165
Why Are Hackers Increasingly Targeting the Healthcare Industry? 111
154 Million Voter Records Exposed Due To Database Error 95
DNC Hacker Releases Clinton Foundation Documents 156
Slashdot Asks: Does Your Company Have A Breach Response Team? 47
Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud? 262
Those 100,000 Lost Air Force Files Have Been Found Again 36
Samsung Buys US Cloud Services Firm Joyent 43
FBI Can Access Hundreds of Millions of Face Recognition Photos 97
Hacker Steals 45 Million Accounts From Hundreds of Car, Tech, Sports Forums 47
Air Force Has Lost 100,000 Inspector General Records 116
DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant 176
Biden Unveils Open-Access Database To Advance Cancer Research 42
Iran Forces Messaging Apps To Move Data To Iranian Servers 40
Finnish Government Criticizes Microsoft For Job Cuts, 'Broken Promises' 161
FBI Raids Dental Software Researcher Who Found Patient Records On Public Server 130
State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server 371
FBI Wants Biometric Database Hidden From Privacy Act 81
Panama Papers Affair Widens As Database Goes Online 100
NASA Launches Searchable Database Of Public Domain Patents 19
Panama Papers Source Breaks Silence Over 'Scale Of Injustices' 114
Microsoft Buys Into DNA Data Storage 81
Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere 185
Jeff Bezos: AWS Will Break $10 Billion This Year 97
Blizzard Shuts Down Popular Fan-run 'Pirate' Server For Classic WoW 266
OpenStack Mitaka Aimed at Simplifying Cloud Operations 20
Outdated and Vulnerable WordPress, Drupal Versions Contributed To Panama Papers Breach 155
China Censors Online Discussion About Panama Papers 109
Toyota Teams With Microsoft On Connected Cars 116
Turkish Citizenship Database Allegedly Leaked Online 44
Bitcoin Could Consume As Much Electricity As Denmark By 2020 170
Using Adblock Plus to Block Ads is Legal, Rules German Court -- For the Fifth Time 237
Redbox Plans To Launch New Streaming Service 'Redbox Digital' 62
Names That Break Computers 372
Is Old Tech Putting Banks Under Threat Of Extinction? 208
1.5 Million Verizon Customer Records Put Up For Sale 26
Microsoft and HP Enterprise Invest $73.5 Million In Mesosphere Startup 27
Guiding Eyes Moves To IBM Cloud To Continue Mission Of Serving The Blind 7
Google Opens Access To Its Speech Recognition API, Going Head To Head With Nuance 46
Apple Worries Spy Technology Has Been Secretly Added To Computer Servers It Buys 251
Red Hat Becomes First $2 Billion Open-Source Company 116
Pale Moon Devs Ponder Dropping Current Codebase And Starting From Scratch 167
Apple Hires Corporate Security Chief Amid Legal Battle With FBI 61
NSA Suggested Clinton Use A $4,750 Windows CE PDA 109
Emails Show NSA Rejected Hillary Clinton's Request For Secure Smartphone 229
Apple Stores iCloud Data With Google 49
5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories From the Cybersecurity Frontlines 67
Study: Drones Present Minimal Threat To Aircraft 176
Crossword Database Analysis Spots What Looks Like Plagiarism 44
Database Error Exposes Sensitive Information On 1,700 Kids 62
Programming Languages For Coding the Physical World 97
PostgreSQL 9.5 Does UPSERT Right 105
Oracle Named Database of the Year, MongoDB Comes In Second 122
PostgreSQL 9.5 Released 104