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Sameer Malek

Sameer Malek is a Senior Full Stack Developer at ConicPlex, working across the stack on projects that don’t fit neatly into one platform or framework. He’s often the person weighing a genuine platform or architecture decision rather than defending one side of it, since his work regularly crosses between WordPress, custom builds, and everything in between. He writes here about the comparisons and tradeoffs that come up when there’s more than one reasonable way to build something.

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Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Day Lets Attackers Chain Three Flaws to Root (CVE-2026-104935)

Ivanti patched an authentication bypass flaw in its Connect Secure VPN appliances on October 13, 2026, five days after a…

Sameer Malek

October 21, 2026

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Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday Fixes 1,413 CVEs, Including an Actively Exploited Windows Zero-Day

Microsoft’s October 13 security update patched 1,413 CVEs, including a Windows Shell zero-day (CVE-2026-96951) already being exploited to bypass Mark…

Sameer Malek

October 14, 2026

News & Updates

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HPE Patches a Critical Unauthenticated Format String Flaw in ClearPass Policy Manager (CVE-2026-76753)

HPE has patched a critical, unauthenticated vulnerability in ClearPass Policy Manager, the network access control platform enterprises use to decide…

Sameer Malek

October 13, 2026

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Chrome Patches 247 Flaws, Including Four Critical Bugs Found with Claude’s Assistance

Chrome 155 patches 247 security issues, 4 of them critical, and two of the critical bugs were found by an…

Sameer Malek

October 12, 2026

News & Updates

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Atlassian Patches a Critical Unauthenticated File Access Flaw across Eight Products (CVE-2026-21589)

Atlassian patched CVE-2026-21589, a 9.3-severity path traversal flaw letting unauthenticated attackers read files across Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and five other…

Sameer Malek

October 6, 2026

News & Updates

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Citrix Patches a NetScaler Zero-Day Exploited to Knock SAML Gateways Offline (CVE-2026-88779)

Citrix patched a new NetScaler zero-day, CVE-2026-88779, already being exploited in targeted attacks. Here is what is affected and what…

Sameer Malek

October 5, 2026

News & Updates

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Citrix Patches Two Critical Zero-Day Flaws in NetScaler ADC and Gateway (CVE-2026-88771, CVE-2026-88772)

Citrix patched two actively exploited NetScaler ADC and Gateway zero-days – CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772. CISA set a September 30 patch…

Sameer Malek

September 29, 2026

Software

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When Tool Sprawl Costs More Than Building a Custom Merchant Dashboard

When separate payment, POS, and billing tools start costing more in reconciliation time than a custom dashboard would cost to…

Sameer Malek

September 28, 2026

News & Updates

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Google’s September 2026 Spam Update Could Take Two Weeks, Its Longest Rollout Yet

Google’s September 2026 spam update began September 24 and could take up to two weeks to complete, making it the…

Sameer Malek

September 28, 2026

News & Updates

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Plugin4Shell Bug Exposes Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, and Gemini CLI to Silent Takeover

A zero-click flaw called Plugin4Shell let attackers swap trusted plugin code in four major AI coding agents. Here is what…

Sameer Malek

September 21, 2026

News & Updates

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Ransomware Gangs Exploit Critical VMware vCenter Flaw (CVE-2026-59310)

CISA confirms ransomware gangs are exploiting CVE-2026-59310, a critical VMware vCenter flaw rated CVSS 9.8. Here’s what’s affected and how…

Sameer Malek

September 16, 2026

News & Updates

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GitLab Rushes a Patch for a Maximum-Severity Path Traversal Flaw (CVE-2026-85706)

GitLab patched a maximum-severity path traversal flaw (CVE-2026-85706) on September 10, 2026. Attackers started probing for it within hours, and…

Sameer Malek

September 14, 2026

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