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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.

News & Updates

Chrome Patches an Actively Exploited Zero-Day, the Eighth of 2026 (CVE-2026-125350)

Google shipped an emergency Chrome stable channel update on November 9, 2026, to patch a Chrome zero-day that attackers are…

Sameer Malek

November 10, 2026

News & Updates

Chrome 157 Patches 213 Flaws, Including Seven Critical Bugs in Its Graphics Stack

Google promoted Chrome 157 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac, and Linux on November 3, 2026, in the latest…

Sameer Malek

November 8, 2026

News & Updates

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Chrome 156 Patches 21 Flaws, Including a Critical MediaStream Bug

Google rolled out Chrome 156 to the Stable and Extended Stable channels on October 29, 2026, closing out 21 security…

Sameer Malek

November 1, 2026

News & Updates

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Cloudflare’s Workers AI Leaked Other Customers’ Data in 155 GLM-5.3 Responses

Cloudflare disclosed that a bug in its Workers AI GLM-5.3 model leaked fragments of other customers’ prompts in 155 responses…

Sameer Malek

October 30, 2026

Software

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Why Multi-Category Service Marketplaces Need a Different Data Model

A multi-category service marketplace, one connecting clients to dog walkers, cleaners, and repair techs under a single search box, cannot…

Sameer Malek

October 29, 2026

News & Updates

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Malicious AGENTS.md Files Are Tricking Codex and Claude Code into Installing Malware

A booby-trapped AGENTS.md file tricked Codex and Claude Code into installing malware in security tests. Here’s what happened and how…

Sameer Malek

October 26, 2026

News & Updates

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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

News & Updates

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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

News & Updates

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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

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