TORONTO — Toronto police say they have arrested and charged one of their own officers who allegedly accessed private police databases without authorization. Police allege Const. Abbas Popal accessed ...

The inspector general's office of the Social Security Administration is investigating allegations of a security breach by a member of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency operation ...

Meryl Kornfield and Elizabeth Dwoskin can be reached securely on Signal at @merylkornfield.59 and @lizza_dwoskin.42 The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a complaint ...

A former employee of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency reportedly stole Americans’ personal data from the U.S. Social Security Administration and stored it on a thumb drive, according to ...

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In January 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts identified a new evolution in the ongoing ClickFix campaign. This updated tactic deliberately crashes victims’ browsers and then attempts to lure users into ...

Overview Want to work with SQLite databases via the same kind of workbench tools available for MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL? These three projects — a desktop application, a web-based app, and a Visual ...

A Lake County Sheriff’s Office civilian employee was ordered to perform community service rather than being prosecuted for using agency databases to search for information on her husband and his ...

A 25-year-old with two-plus years on the force became at least the third Riverside County sheriff’s deputy this year to be accused of illegally accessing a computer database. Deputy Dakota Lasher ...

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Google has confirmed that some customers’ information has been stolen in a recent breach of one of its databases. In a blog post late on Tuesday, Google Threat Intelligence Group said one of its ...