Firebase was early to take the form of a database that is not limited to one physical computer. Its modern form allows it to split workloads between multiple machines by either splitting the ...

Thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications are exposing over 113 GBs of data via over 2,271 misconfigured Firebase databases, according to a report released this week by mobile security firm ...

Unfortunately, the only way to completely prevent the data leaks is for each app’s developers to update their Firebase storage configuration; aside from not using these apps (which are not ...

As noted by Bleeping Computer, ... 2.7 million iOS and Android apps to identify 28,502 mobile apps — 27,227 Android and 1,275 iOS — that stored data in Firebase backends.

Firebase started out as a database backend service for real-time apps, but today it's taking a step in another direction. The company is expanding its platform with a hosting service for web apps.

Google today announced that it is buying San Francisco database stratus Firebase. Firebase, which will become part of the broader Google Cloud Platform, is an interesting approach towards mobile ...