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Sony So-net Breach: 2.58 Million Records Exposed, What to Do

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In brief Sony says hackers accessed its So-net member database on October 19, exposing 2,585,481 records — plus email passwords for 54,401 addresses. The total splits into 2,141,986 So-net membership records and 443,495 plala (S Course) records, including former customers who cancelled from March 2026 onward. Membership passwords were not leaked and no credit-card data … Read more

Cloudflare’s AI Cache Leak: How 155 Responses Got Other Users’ Data

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In brief Cloudflare says a sizing mismatch and an SGLang bug let its GLM-5.3 model return other customers’ data in 155 responses, all to very long prompts. The leak ran from August 27 to September 9, 2026, and only affected prompts longer than 681,280 tokens — the size of the prefill KV cache pool, against … Read more

CrowdStrike: AI Agents Ran Real Intrusions in Four Campaigns

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In brief CrowdStrike found four actors using AI agents to run real intrusions: 15+ Argentine hospitals hit, 726 databases reached, one takeover in about 20 minutes. The four campaigns ran between May and August 2026 and were described in CrowdStrike’s October 21, 2026 report. All four actors left their agent frameworks exposed in open directories, … Read more

Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Staff: Should You Take One?

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In brief Microsoft offered voluntary exit packages to about 60,000 staff in the US, Canada, UK and India. Who is eligible, what the terms are, and how to decide. The offer covers employees at vice president level and below (internal level 70 and below) on select teams. Data center, sales, marketing, and security staff are … Read more

VPN Protocols Compared: WireGuard vs OpenVPN vs Lightway vs IKEv2

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In brief WireGuard is fastest for most people, OpenVPN TCP gets through strict networks, and IKEv2 holds a phone connection across networks. How to pick by situation. WireGuard’s one real caveat is not speed or security but identity: the protocol has no built-in way to hand out tunnel addresses dynamically, so a naive setup ties … Read more

VPN Kill Switch Explained: What It Does and How to Test It

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In brief A VPN kill switch cuts your internet the moment your VPN drops, so your real IP never leaks. System-wide vs app-level, and the 2-minute test that proves yours works. A kill switch is not a feature that makes your VPN faster or stronger. It is a safety net for the moment the VPN … Read more

A Hijacked Analytics Script Skimmed Brazilian Shoppers’ Cards

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In brief A Magecart group hid a card skimmer in Convertr’s analytics script, stealing card numbers and CPFs from Brazilian checkouts since October 24. Sansec, the security firm that found it, says a notorious Brazilian Magecart group active since 2024 planted the skimmer in Convertr’s analytics script file. From October 24, checkouts on affected stores … Read more

GMO Internet Breach: Hackers Posted Customer Data After the Company Refused a ¥8 Billion Ransom

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In brief GMO Internet says attackers published data allegedly linked to Onamae cloud-desktop customers after it refused a ¥8 billion ransom demand. What traders should do. GMO Internet confirmed on October 27, 2026 that people believed to be the attackers had published information they claim relates to the company and its customers, hours after the … Read more

Quest Diagnostics Breach: Patient Records Accessed, and Almost Nothing Quantified

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In brief Quest Diagnostics says an intruder accessed certain patient records via its Quanum lab system. No patient count, no data types, no entry point — what is confirmed. Quest Diagnostics, one of the largest clinical laboratory companies in the United States, disclosed on October 22, 2026 that it learned on October 21 of unauthorized … Read more

Microsoft’s Emergency .NET Patch: The Same Brotli Flaw, a Different Ecosystem

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In brief Microsoft’s out-of-band .NET update fixes the Brotli memory flaw behind Node2Shell — but only apps that decompress untrusted data are exposed. Check your build. The out-of-band release of October 25, 2026 covers .NET 8, 9, and 10, plus .NET 11 Release Candidate 3. The headline fix is CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow in .NET’s … Read more