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Attackers Exploit WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture Flaw to Plant PHP Web Shells

Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture, a premium WordPress plugin that has more than 6,000 active installs. "This vulnerability can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files, including PHP backdoors, and achieve remote code execution," Wordfence said. The WordPress security company said it has blocked over

Attackers Exploit WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture Flaw to Plant PHP Web Shells

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I Measured 27,257 MCP Connections. The p90 Session Waits 35s.

In July I wrote a 56-line shell script called mcp-optional whose entire job was to remove two MCP servers from my config. Not fix them. Remove them.

  • Developer created mcp-optional script to disable problematic stdio servers
  • Measured 27,257 successful MCP connections over 35 days
  • p90 session wait time of 35 seconds identified as major performance issue

How to Tailor a Resume to a Job Description in 20 Minutes

Most advice on this stops at "find the keywords and put them in," which is true, useless, and the reason people either burn an evening per application or give up and send the same file to everything.

  • Identify five key aspects of the job posting to tailor resume for (5 minutes)
  • Adjust summary, skills list, top 3 role bullets, and section order in 20 minutes
  • Rewrite top bullets using exact posting language while keeping facts unchanged

Can You Vibe Code an OS Without Lying to Yourself?

I have no idea what I'm f*cking doing. Something I have been chewing on: I am using AI agents to help build an operating system. And I genuinely cannot tell you yet whether that is a good idea.

  • ShrekOS boots, updates, and isolates agents.
  • AI agents work within defined framework.
  • Vibe coding operating system is potentially irresponsible.

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