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Introduction A critical vulnerability was discovered in a widely-used WordPress backup plugin, putting approximately 50,000 websites at risk of Remote Code Execution (RCE) attacks. This security flaw highlights…
Read articleAEGIS is an AES-based family of authenticated encryption algorithms that are significantly faster than ubiquitous algorithms such as AES-GCM and CHACHA20-POLY1305. The Sodium extension in PHP 8.4 supports…
Read articleA researcher hijacked over a dozen Packagist packages, with some having been installed hundreds of millions of times over the course of their lifetime. The researcher reached out…
Read articleWith a handful of new features such as typed class constants, granular Exceptions in the DateTime extension, the new json_validate function, functionality changes and improvements, and deprecations, PHP…
Read articleCaddy Server is a modular and modern web server platform that supports automatic HTTPS certificates, QUIC and HTTP/2, Zstd and Brotli compression, and various modern features as well…
Read articleWordPress and many WordPress hosts make updates easy with automation. Still, manual updates can be a hassle. Is upgrading PHP worth your time? Absolutely. The benefits of the…
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