A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals ...

An unsecured database that likely contains tens of millions of unique Social Security numbers, alongside email addresses and ...

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

DNA science has helped solve criminal cases for decades. But increasingly, investigative genetic genealogy — which was first ...

Last year was littered with cyber attacks, data breaches, and other online criminal activity targeting both businesses and consumers. Unfortunately, there’s no reason to believe this year will be any ...