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Most Secure Shell (SSH) hardening advice starts and ends with two changes: move off port 22 or disable root login. Both are easy to implement, widely recommended — and almost entirely misunderstood.

In late April 2026, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability was disclosed in cPanel and WHM, tracked as CVE-2026-41940. The issue affects the login flow of these widely deployed hosting control panels and allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain administrative access. Given the prevalence of cPanel across shared and dedicated hosting environments, the vulnerability represents a significant management plane risk.

After decades of innovation in personal technology, ranging from watches that track personal fitness, mini super-computers that we call phones, and a whole host of other gadgets and self-help technologies, our companies still rely on one technology that started over 45 years ago – the laptop. Fun fact: the first one, called the Osborne 1, weighed 24 pounds! The modern laptop has a better screen, longer battery life, and weighs significantly less, but at its core is still a hard drive.

Microsoft warns that a new criminal threat actor dubbed “Storm-2755” is launching payroll-pirate attacks against Canadian users. These attacks use social engineering to compromise employee accounts and divert salary payments to attacker-controlled bank accounts.

Over the past two and a bit quarters, we've undertaken an intensive engineering effort, internally code-named "Code Orange: Fail Small", focused on making Cloudflare's infrastructure more resilient, secure, and reliable for every customer. Earlier this month, the Cloudflare team finished this work.

On April 29, 2026, details about the ‘Copy Fail’ vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) were publicly disclosed. This high-severity (CVSS score of 7.8) privilege escalation vulnerability impacts Linux distributions shipped since 2017. It allows an unprivileged local user to obtain root-level access on affected Linux systems by corrupting the kernel’s in-memory page cache of a privileged binary.