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Server room with glowing archive shelves of digital log files and a 90-day calendar
October 18, 2026 · Infrastructure · 5 min read

Increase Ubuntu Linux Server Log Retention Default

Why 90 days of logs beats the 14-day default: breach forensics, elusive bugs, PCI-DSS and GDPR compliance, and quarterly traffic insights.

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October 18, 2026 · Cloud protection · 6 min read

Use a Cloudflare free or Pro account to stop up to 90% of automatic hacking bots

A seven-step Cloudflare setup for Magento: nameservers, orange-cloud proxy, managed WAF rules, bot fight mode, and full SSL.

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October 17, 2026 · Security lessons · 8 min read

From Total Blackout to Bulletproof: 7 Hard Security Lessons from an E-Commerce Manager

Seven hard-won lessons from a real Magento breach: hosting, backups, monitoring, expert help, edge defense, OS hardening, and proactive scanning.

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 E-commerce engineer facing a dark server room screen showing breach alerts
October 17, 2026 · Incident recovery · 10 min read

How a Magento Store Was Taken Down and the Blueprint to Reclaim It

A true story from an E-Commerce Manager running a B2B website: automated exploits took the store down, and a clean-server rebuild brought it back.

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October 17, 2026 · Security Research · 8 min read

Top 10 Magento Security Issues with Our Clients' Production Platform

Real log evidence from our clients' stores: RCE via file uploads, SQLi flooding, app-layer DoS, credential stuffing, and more — plus how to protect your store.

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October 17, 2026 · Inside EStronghold · 4 min read

Overview of Managed Care Onboarding with EStronghold

A week-by-week walkthrough of Managed Care onboarding — what happens each week, what we need from you, and when steady state begins.

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October 17, 2026 · Inside EStronghold · 5 min read

What's Onboarding with EStronghold like? in details

A deep dive into our five-phase onboarding process — from stakeholder overview to forensic diagnostics — and our Chain of Custody guarantee.

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 Illustration of a shopping cart overwhelmed by automated request streams
October 17, 2026 · Threat anatomy · 5 min read

The Magento Guest-Cart Placement Loop: Anatomy of an E-Commerce Exploit

How bots abuse Magento's native guest checkout APIs to exhaust your server — and the edge and OS-level defenses that stop the loop.

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 Illustration of the StyleSmuggler attack
October 14, 2026 · Threat analysis · 4 min read

StyleSmuggler attack and exploitation compromises Magento 2.4.x Open Source Stores

A CVSS 10.0 zero-day turned Magento's own template engine against fully patched stores. Here is what happened and what to do.

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October 14, 2026 · Security policy · 4 min read

Are software update and patches enough for Magento 2.4.x security policies?

Patching is essential, but StyleSmuggler proved it is only one layer. A sound policy needs several more.

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