Archive topics: hosting
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28 Oct 2026
FBI seizes Virtualine, bulletproof hosting provider that promised to shield criminals from police
The FBI has seized virtualine.net, the domain of a bulletproof hosting provider that laundered money for its criminal customers and kept a forum trading in child sexual abuse…
27 Oct 2026
Attack on email hosting provider for German far right party AfD exposed 345k accounts
Alternative für Deutschland swats away scandals as reporters swarm leaked email tranche
27 Oct 2026
DreamHost incident triggers password resets, locks customers out of email and FTP accounts
DreamHost has brought its File Manager back online after an incident that disrupted several of its services, though some of its customers still can’t get into their email…
21 Oct 2026
Info-stealing malware slipped into OVHcloud CLI releases on GitHub
OVHcloud, the French cloud computing and web hosting company, alerted customers that a hacker tampered with its open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool to spread information-stealing malware. OVHcloud CEO…
19 Oct 2026
RPO and RTO explained with a real disaster recovery example
In this Help Net Security video, Matthew Burden, CEO of BlackBox Hosting, explains RPO and RTO and how they differ in practice. RPO, the recovery point objective, is…
16 Oct 2026
Fake Arch Linux AUR packages exploit typos to run malware with root privileges
Arch Linux users who mistyped yay or paru while installing the package helpers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) may have given a stranger root access to their…
9 Oct 2026
Deno is joining Cloudflare
The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to radically simplify self-hosting Workers and Durable Objects, so developers can use the same primitives in more places.
9 Oct 2026
Product showcase: SimpleLogin keeps your email address private with aliases
SimpleLogin is an email alias service from Proton that forwards messages to an existing mailbox. Users create addresses for registrations, purchases, and correspondence, giving them control over where…
1 Oct 2026
We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
Cloudflare is hosting a competition to see who will build the next Git platform for an era of AI agents. Artifacts is in open beta, with Workers bindings,…