Apple Silicon Rosetta 2 in 2026: when you still need it, when you should disable it, and detecting which of your CLI tools are silently running x86_64

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You bought an M-series MacBook three years ago. Almost everything you use is now ARM-native. But every time you check Activity Monitor, there are still half a dozen processes labeled Intel, several of them are CLI tools you didn’t …

Block PHP execution in wp-content/uploads on OpenLiteSpeed: the right .htaccess snippet

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Computer monitor displaying terminal output: system metrics, file listings, and kernel error messages — typical sysadmin view (photo: Tima Miroshnichenko)

wp-content/uploads/ is the most predictable target on a WordPress install. It’s writable by the web server (so any compromise that gets a file uploaded lands here), it’s almost never inspected by malware scanners with the same vigilance as wp-includes/, …

The .hph extension trick: how WordPress malware survives cleanups by shadowing .php files

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Four nearly identical white binders standing in a wooden box, suggesting how easy it is to overlook a slightly differently-named file in a directory listing (photo: Mateusz Dach / Pexels)

You clean a WordPress malware infection. You find every .php file with the suspicious signature, quarantine it, restore from backup, harden the site. Three weeks later the same backdoor is back. Same filename, same content, same behavior. You’re sure you …

Wordfence forensics: mining wp_wfhits and wp_wfissues to reconstruct a breach timeline

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Top-down view of two detectives examining black-and-white photos and fingerprint cards on a desk — visual metaphor for piecing together a breach timeline from log evidence (photo: RDNE / Pexels)

If you’re cleaning up a WordPress compromise and the site has Wordfence installed, you have more forensic data than you think. Even on the free plan, Wordfence quietly logs every blocked request, every plugin-vulnerability advisory, every flagged file, and every …