Tag: security
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Security
WordPress 7.0.4 Fixes a PNG That Runs Code. The Flaw Was Almost 10 Years Old.
WordPress 7.0.4 fixes a flaw where an image hiding PostScript runs code on the server. It needs an author account, and multi-author sites should hurry.
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Cloudflare Reached FedRAMP High Without Building a Separate Government Cloud
Cloudflare for Government reached FedRAMP High on the same public network that serves everyone else. The Class D label is ahead of FedRAMP's calendar.
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N-able’s First Patch Left the Door Open, and Attackers Walked Back Through It
N-able's first fix missed a second route to the same flaw. Attackers are using it, and the new hotfix does not remove what they left behind.
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Freenom Is Back, and No Longer Free. The Free-Domain Registry Behind Years of Phishing.
Freenom, once the internet's biggest source of free phishing domains, has quietly returned, now charging money, two years after Meta sued it into retreat.
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A Once-a-Decade WordPress Core Flaw, and the Gap Between Patched and Safe
WordPress did the rare thing and forced a core security fix to millions of sites. Within 72 hours the break-ins started anyway. The gap is the story.
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A Critical Nginx Flaw and Who Is Actually Exposed
F5 patched a critical Nginx flaw (CVSS 9.2) latent since 2011. It only hits specific regex-map configs, and a proof-of-concept exploit is due in early August.
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An Unauthenticated Path to Code Execution in WordPress Core, Already Being Exploited
A flaw in WordPress core hands strangers the keys to your site, no password required, and attackers are already walking through the door. It is already being exploited.
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Cloudways Just Handed AI Agents the Admin Panel, and the Locks Are Racing to Catch Up
Cloudways now lets AI agents run almost your whole hosting account by chat. Its role-based tokens are a rare guardrail in a category where MCP security lags.
Security
Januscape and Bad Epoll: Two Linux Flaws That Let One Customer Take Over the Whole Server
Two Linux kernel flaws, patched the same week, break the multi-tenant promise: one escapes a guest VM to the host, the other hands any local user root.
Security
Three Unauthenticated File Flaws in a Week, and One Root Cause: Validation by Shortcut
In one July week, three unauthenticated file-handling flaws surfaced across WordPress plugins and a web FTP client, all rooted in validation by shortcut.
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