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DreamHost Locks Out Email and FTP Users, Won’t Say Why
DreamHost is forcing email, FTP and SFTP password resets in an ongoing incident and telling owners to remove unknown forwarding rules, but hasn't said what happened.
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Sony’s So-net Breach Spills 2.6 Million ISP Customer Records
Sony Network Communications says an Oct. 19 intrusion exposed 2.59 million So-net and Docomo Hikari customer records, plus 54,401 email addresses with passwords. No card data was taken.
Researchers Defused a Popcorn Time Updater on Millions of PCs
Eye Security found Time4Popcorn's abandoned updater would run any file as SYSTEM or root, registered its domain and used it to switch the updater off. Android users remain exposed.
Rank Math PRO Shipped a Backdoor for 11 Hours
Rank Math PRO 3.0.123, served from the vendor's own site for about 11 hours on Oct. 15-16, carried a backdoor that creates hidden admins and rebuilds itself. Updating alone doesn't clean it.
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Food Lion and Stop & Shop Owner Still Digging Out From Cyberattack
Ahold Delhaize, parent of Food Lion, Stop & Shop, Hannaford and Giant, is restoring websites and apps after a cyberattack disclosed Oct. 12. Stores are open and no data theft has been found so far.