Krebs on Security

ID Theft Service Resold Access to USInfoSearch Data

One of the cybercrime underground’s more active sellers of Social Security numbers, background and credit reports has been pulling data from hacked accounts at the U.S. consumer data broker ...
NPR

DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data. Now, it can cut off billions to farmers

A staffer from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, recently got high-level access to view and change the contents of a payments system that controls tens of billions of dollars in ...
TechCrunch

SurrealDB raises $6M for its database-as-a-service offering

There’s plenty of vendors in the managed database services market — and plenty that are well financed. Take a look at SingleStore, which last October raised $30 million to bring its database tech to ...
Forbes

DigitalOcean Adds PostgreSQL Database To Its Growing Portfolio Of Managed Services

DigitalOcean, the New York-based cloud infrastructure services company has announced the limited availability of PostgreSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering. MySQL and Redis are expected to join ...
Aclu.org

U.S. DOGE Service Access to Sensitive Agency Records Systems FOIA

There are serious privacy concerns raised by reports that the United States DOGE (“Department of Government Efficiency”) Service (“USDS”) has gained access to federal agency systems, including those ...
The New York Times

Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks Data Access

The departure of the acting commissioner is the latest backlash to the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to access sensitive data. By Alan Rappeport Andrew Duehren and Nicholas Nehamas ...