Is WordPress in Danger Again? How to Strengthen Your Defenses and Using AI to Convert Unmaintained Corporate Sites to Static

With the PHP2Shell issue, people are once again saying that "WordPress is dead."I imagine the people in charge of managing small and medium-sized business websites using WordPress felt panicked by ...

AI Ramblings #037 | The Trap of 'Static HTML' After Escaping WordPress and PHP

If you intend to plug the holes in your CMS, are you accidentally opening holes in your OS? Thinking about truly secure Web publishing*This article is written based on information as of October 28, ...
PCMag

I Know Exactly How to Access the Dark Web. I Still Won't Do It

The dark web is a minefield with no customer support and no second chances. Here's what's lurking down there and how to ...
The Tech Edvocate

Catastrophic PHP Flaws: Here’s What You Must Do Now to Protect Your Site

Spread the love“`html If you run a website powered by PHP, you’ve probably heard the whispers, or maybe even the full-blown ...
The Hacker News

Attackers Abuse UpdraftCentral Keys to Plant Backdoors on WordPress Sites

Attackers used compromised UpdraftCentral keys to install WordPress backdoors after a TeamUpdraft website breach, prompting ...
TechCrunch

Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said the company has stopped using nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) in its dealings with government agencies as it seeks approval to build new data centers. Garman’s ...
PC Magazine

Prompt Injection: Why Hackers No Longer Need Code to Steal Your Data

I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy. With companies vying for user data, AI skimming it for tools, and countless bad actors seeking to exploit it, safeguarding the ...
CBS News

Data centers are changing America's landscape, report says

The corporate technology giants building data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom are changing America's natural landscape. Although data centers long predate generative AI, hundreds of ...
NBC News

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the Trump administration to use an expanded federal database containing citizenship information, as the president encourages states to purge people ...
nytimes.com

Here’s How Trump Is Building a National Citizenship Database to Check Voters

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to deploy a system that merges personal data from across the government. Questions remain about its reliability. By Nicholas Nehamas and Zach ...
Post and Courier

Spartanburg data center more than doubles projected water use after getting gas turbine permit

SPARTANBURG — A data center already dogged by allegations that it hasn't been forthcoming now says it gave residents "dated" information on its projected water usage. Its revised estimate more than ...
ZDNet

97% of US database administrators are running obsolete programs

We all use out-of-date software. Sometimes we do it out of laziness, sometimes upgrading costs too much, and sometimes it just works, and we don’t want to replace it. Still, when Percona, the ...