A Virginia software contractor deleted nearly 100 US government databases within minutes of being fired, with his twin ...

In the US, fired and laid-off workers often have their digital credentials deactivated before they learn about the loss of ...

Agencies face growing pressure to modernize their data protection strategies while defending against sophisticated cyberthreats. Legacy backup tools often fall short, especially when ransomware ...

A rogue AI agent has caused mayhem after wiping a software company’s entire database and all recent backups in a matter of mere seconds. A number of crucial safeguards are baked into the most commonly ...

An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding ...

The world remains abuzz about AI’s potential to contribute to the greater good of humanity. For instance, Firefox developer Mozilla recently proclaimed that AI could effectively end the era of ...

Facepalm: It took only nine seconds for an AI coding agent to wipe a startup's production database and its backups with a single API call to its cloud provider. The failure began when Cursor, running ...

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Another cautionary tale about AI has hit social media. This time, a software company’s founder is claiming that a Claude-powered version of AI coding tool Cursor deleted his entire production database ...

Ransomware and other cyberthreats often dominate conversations about data loss, but they are not the only risks businesses face. Everyday issues such as hardware failures, accidental deletions and ...

In this tutorial, we build a comprehensive, hands-on understanding of DuckDB-Python by working through its features directly in code on Colab. We start with the fundamentals of connection management ...

My first World Backup Day article for forbes.com was in 2014. At that time, I said that, “A few years ago, several companies and folks concerned with data protection updated this idea as a one-day ...