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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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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

News & Updates

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Chrome Patches Its Seventh Actively Exploited Zero-Day of 2026 (CVE-2026-87491)

Google patched CVE-2026-87491, Chrome’s seventh actively exploited zero-day of 2026, in Chrome 153. Here’s what changed and how to update….

Sameer Malek

September 10, 2026

News & Updates

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Google Patches an Actively Exploited Chrome Zero-Day in V8 (CVE-2026-85046)

Google patched CVE-2026-85046, an actively exploited Chrome zero-day in V8, on September 3, 2026. Here is what it affects and…

Sameer Malek

September 5, 2026

News & Updates

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Chrome 152 Ships with 327 Security Fixes, Including a Critical ANGLE Flaw (CVE-2026-79282)

Chrome 152.0.7977.64 patches 327 security issues, including a critical use-after-free in ANGLE (CVE-2026-79282) that earned a $25,000 bounty. Here is…

Sameer Malek

August 27, 2026

News & Updates

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CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of a Critical Gitea RCE Flaw (CVE-2026-60004)

CISA added CVE-2026-60004, a critical Gitea RCE flaw, to its exploited vulnerabilities catalog after attackers began deploying crypto miners on…

Sameer Malek

August 27, 2026

News & Updates

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Cloudflare Discloses a Spectre Attack That Could Leak JWTs From Workers

Cloudflare disclosed a Spectre-class attack that leaked JWTs from co-located Workers at 12 bits a second, already mitigated through three…

Sameer Malek

August 24, 2026

News & Updates, Software

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Next.js Security Release: Critical Patch Coming August 26

Next.js confirmed a critical security release for August 26, 2026, patching versions 16.3.3 and 15.5.24. Here’s what web teams should…

Sameer Malek

August 24, 2026

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