There are companies whose entire business model is built around collecting personal data, including criminal records, employment details, addresses and more. They use this data to offer background ...

Hot on the heels of the National Public Records data breach, which leaked more than 2 billion records, another background check firm has now had a leak. The company in question, MC2 Data, exposed the ...

Elon Musk is now considered a “special government employee” by the White House. But exactly what kind of access that provides—and whether he has appropriate security clearance to access the nation’s ...

Rich Vibert is the CEO and cofounder of Metomic, a modern, human-centric DLP solution for SaaS and GenAI tools. In 2025, the value of sensitive personal and business information has never been clearer ...

Google has fixed a critical flaw found in its Gemini Enterprise AI assistant that allowed attackers to access and exfiltrate sensitive corporate data by planting malicious instructions into a common ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The author of many tech books, Michael Ashley covers AI and Big Data. Imagine your law firm’s worst nightmare just happened. One ...

(CNN) — Nights out drinking can often end badly. But in Japan, they have a habit of going spectacularly wrong for government employees – who on at least two occasions in recent years have lost ...