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Security alerts, software releases and practical guides for website owners, from the Lucid Cloud Platform team.
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WordPress 7.1.4 fixes a flaw where updating is the risky moment. What it means, who it affects, and why this one is a job for the server, not the dashboard.
On 28th October 2026, Node.js 26 became the long-term release. If you run an application built on Node.js, that is now the version to be on, and the project has also, starting…
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Two different versions of .NET, released a year apart, both stop receiving security fixes on the same day: 10th November 2026. That looks like a coincidence and it is not one, and…
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A flaw disclosed this week sat inside a WordPress security plugin, and the way in was the very feature that exists to show you who has been trying to get in. There…
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On 28th October 2026, the people who look after Drupal’s security published thirty-nine separate advisories in a single day, and one of them was already being used against live sites. If you…
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At some point someone has shown you a score out of a hundred for your website, with a red or orange ring around it, and left you feeling you ought to do…
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At some point you pasted a long string of letters and numbers into a plugin’s settings page, clicked Save, and never thought about it again. It might have been the key for…
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On Wednesday we told you that a critical flaw in PHP had been fixed, that our platform and managed services were already patched, and that there was nothing for most of our…
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Someone leaves a comment on your website. You never approve it, so it never appears, and you forget it was ever there. Weeks later you sit down to back up your site…
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Last month your website had visitors you never think about. Not the customers, the other ones: search engines building their indexes, the monitor that checks your site is still up, link checkers,…
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You write the new services page. You send it to a colleague for a look. Back comes an email with eleven changes in it, you make nine of them, they reply about…
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On 21st October 2026 the PHP project released an emergency fix for two critical flaws in PHP, the programming language that runs nearly every WordPress site, and the UK’s National Cyber Security…
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A customer buys something from your shop. A moment later a message arrives at your website saying the payment went through, and your website believes it, marks the order paid and sends…
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Here is a question most WordPress site owners cannot answer off the top of their head: who are the administrators on your website? Not the people who can log in and write…
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Somewhere, probably quite recently, someone has told you that a PHP upgrade will make your website faster. It is one of the most repeated pieces of advice in web hosting, it sounds…
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On 8th December 2026, WordPress 7.2 arrives: a new version of the software that runs most of the world’s websites. This is not something to worry about. It is a date in…
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Tuesday morning. Coffee on the desk, the admin screen open, and the overnight list to work through: two orders, a refund query, four form submissions. You open each one, because that is…
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At 21:47 UTC on 7th October 2026, attacks began against a flaw in a WordPress plugin. The advisory telling the world that the flaw existed was published on 8th October. Read those…
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Quick exercise: without looking, list everything running on your VPS. The website, obviously. Now the rest. The helpdesk you trialled. A Git runner. The status page. A staging copy of the site…
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On a shared server, what actually stops the other customers on the machine from reaching your site? We answered one version of that question two weeks ago, when the shared wall in…
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If your WordPress site has ever been hacked, you probably know the cycle. A security plugin found something. The bad files were deleted. The site looked normal again, and everyone relaxed. Three…
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Somebody bought the example domain in your website’s code. That sentence needs two more to make sense. When developers write documentation and sample code, they need a stand-in web address, and for…
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