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Security

WordPress Plugin Supply Chain Attacks Have a Pattern in 2026, and BdThemes Fits It

On August 7, 2026, attackers poisoned a JSON data stream used by seven BdThemes plugins, including Element Pack Addons, which alone runs…

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Security

A New Linux Botnet Is Turning Unpatched Routers and Servers Into Proxy Networks

A botnet built almost entirely from vulnerabilities that already have patches Security researchers documented a previously unknown Linux botnet in July 2026…

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Security

WPForms Lite’s ‘Backdoor’ Accusation: What the Setup Wizard Actually Sends Offsite

TL;DR: WPForms Lite (active on over 5 million WordPress sites) sparked a debate after a developer claimed its setup wizard contained a…

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Domains

He Turned Down a $1,000 Domain Offer, Then Spent More Losing a UDRP Case

A UK business owner’s failed UDRP domain dispute over LoyalSoldiers.com shows how disputes can cost more than the domain itself. Here’s the…

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E-commerce

2026’s Holiday Shopping Predictions Say a Lot About What Your Hosting Needs to Handle

2026 holiday shopping predictions show the traffic patterns stores must prepare for. Here’s the practical holiday shopping hosting checklist. Table of Contents…

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Domains

A Threat Actor Spent $7 Million Buying Expired Domains. Here’s the Business Model.

Sable Squirrel: The moment your domain lapses, it becomes worth money to someone else Every day, roughly 50,400 domains across generic top-level…

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Domains

GoDaddy Removes the $25,000 Cap on Its Domain Appraisal Tool

GoDaddy rolled out an updated version of its GoValue domain appraisal tool starting around August 10, 2026, with the update fully live…

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Security

CISA’s “Tale of Two SOCs”: Why Having Security Tools Isn’t the Same as Being Protected

CISA ran two red team assessments against two critical infrastructure organizations using similar attack methods, and published the results side by side…

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Web Hosting

Namecheap’s 30-Hour Outage Is a Lesson in Why DNS and Hosting Shouldn’t Share a Single Point of Failure

A data center cooling failure took down Namecheap’s hosting, DNS, and email at once. Here’s the DNS hosting redundancy lesson that made…

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Domains

Verisign’s .com Price Increase: What It Actually Means for Your Renewal

Verisign’s .com price increase is 7% at wholesale this November. Here’s the difference between wholesale and what actually lands on your renewal…

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