Security is the practice of protecting systems, data, and users from threats including unauthorized access, data theft, malicious code, and operational compromise. Articles cover security architecture, threat models, encryption, identity, and operational security patterns.
wp2shell is the name given to a pair of chained vulnerabilities in WordPress core that together let an unauthenticated attacker run code…
WordPress secrets have historically lived in places that any security review would flag: the WordPress options table, plugin-specific tables, individual user meta…
For years, one public SSL/TLS certificate could quietly do two jobs. Many so-called dual-use certificates carried both the serverAuth and clientAuth Extended…
In mid-July 2026, Hugging Face reported that an autonomous AI agent had broken into part of its production infrastructure. A few days…
For most of the web’s history, an SSL/TLS certificate was a once-a-year chore. You bought a certificate, installed it, set a calendar…
Passkeys are the post-password authentication credential. They replace both the traditional password and the additional MFA code that authenticator apps produce, with…
The question that comes up almost every time someone configures their first authenticator app is the right question to start this post…
A WordPress backup is one of the largest exfiltration targets on any site. A full backup contains the database (which holds user…
Pantheon Secrets is the credential-management feature that Pantheon-hosted WordPress sites use to store API keys, OAuth tokens, database credentials, encryption keys, and…
OpenClaw is the MIT-licensed open-source AI agent framework created by developer Peter Steinberger that went viral through the AI development community in…