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Latest updates, feature announcements, and security news from Panelica.

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DDoS Protection on Hosting Servers: What Your Panel Handles and What It Does Not

Hosting panels stop application-layer DDoS well: HTTP floods, login bruteforce, slow loris, bot traffic. Volumetric network attacks require upstream protection. Verified facts about what Panelica built-in defences handle — and when Cloudflare or a DDoS service is mandatory.

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Why EU Hosting Companies Are Replacing US-Built Panels in 2026

NIS2, Schrems III, and the US CLOUD Act have converged to make vendor jurisdiction a board-level compliance question for EU hosting operators. A practical framework for evaluating your panel vendor before the next regulatory shock -- and why this is the year to document your answer. Covers the 7-question NIS2 supply chain audit checklist, a full vendor jurisdiction table, and what EU-aligned actually requires from a hosting panel or cPanel alternative.

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aaPanel vs Panelica: China-Origin Code and the EU Hosting Decision

EU hosting operators subject to GDPR face a compliance-due-diligence question that free pricing cannot answer: where does your panel software originate, what does it call home, and can you document that for an Article 28 audit? This comparison examines aaPanel vs Panelica on architecture, feature gating, kernel isolation, and EU compliance posture — including why "aaPanel is free" is the wrong starting question for a cPanel alternative evaluation.

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What CVE-2026-41940 Reveals About a 30-Year-Old Codebase Architecture

CVE-2026-41940 is technically a CRLF injection flaw. Architecturally, it is something larger: a vulnerability class documented since the early 2000s applied against a session-handling pattern from 1996. This post examines what a 30-year architectural foundation means for 2026 threat actors, and why choosing a cPanel alternative now means asking architectural questions.

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You can issue a 15-year SSL certificate today. Here's how, and why almost nobody does.

Most of HTTPS in 2026 lives in 90-day Let's Encrypt chunks. But if your domain sits behind Cloudflare's proxy, there is a CA that will issue you a certificate valid for 5,475 days. This is what it is, when to use it, how to implement an auto-issue pipeline that picks between Cloudflare Origin, DNS-01 Let's Encrypt, and HTTP-01 Let's Encrypt, and the trade-offs that nobody talks about.

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Fragnesia (CVE-2026-46300): What Panelica Users Need to Know

CVE-2026-46300 (CVSS 7.8) is a Linux kernel local privilege escalation. Panelica itself is not affected. For most users, apt update && apt upgrade and a reboot is all that is needed. Here is what to check and when to act sooner.

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May 2026 Hosting Panel Security Crisis: cPanel, WHMCS, Plesk, DirectAdmin, and CyberPanel

Nine CVEs, 44,000 compromised IPs, active ransomware, and cross-customer billing data exposure -- the full May 2026 security breakdown across every major hosting panel and billing platform, with per-audience action plans.

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The AI Cyber Arms Race Is Here: What Claude Mythos Means for Your Servers

Anthropic's Claude Mythos can find zero-days autonomously. Chinese models are 6-12 months behind. Here is why the hosting industry is unprepared and how Panelica is built for this threat era.

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Two Critical Vulnerabilities This Week: nginx RCE (CVE-2026-42945) and Fragnesia Kernel LPE (CVE-2026-46300)

CVE-2026-42945 brings a heap buffer overflow to every nginx version since 2008 -- PoC is public, patch today. CVE-2026-46300 (Fragnesia) is an ESP-in-TCP kernel LPE. Grep-verified Panelica exposure map, AppArmor containment analysis, AI discovery context, and operator action plan for both.

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CVE-2026-43284 Dirty Frag: One-Command Root on Every Linux Server Built Since 2017

Dirty Frag (CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500) lets any unprivileged user gain root on Linux. Patched versions, mitigation, and KernelCare guidance inside.

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cPanel's 30-Day Security Storm: 44,000 Servers, 70M Domains, Two Emergency TSRs

Inside cPanel's 30-day security storm: CVE-2026-41940, 44,000 compromised servers, the .sorry ransomware wave, and what the May 8, 2026 TSR signals.

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cPanel Pre-Discloses Three New CVEs (CVE-2026-29201, 29202, 29203) — Second Emergency TSR in 10 Days

cPanel pre-disclosed three new CVEs ahead of the May 8, 2026 patch — the second emergency TSR in 10 days after CVE-2026-41940. Affected versions, /scripts/upcp guidance, and what hosters must do now.

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