Unless you’ve been living under a rock it would have been very difficult to miss the news about the snappily named security reports CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 – more popularly known in the press as The PHP Apocalypse or PHP2Shell for those in the know. Rated 9.2 out of a possible 10 according to CVSS v4.0 it is a fault which is essentially almost as bad as it can get.
What…
Securing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is not a single task. There are a few different problems to solve. Your server probably talks to something that needs a secret (a database password or an external API key) so that secret has to be stored safely. If it’s…
If you write database applications in Delphi, you probably know this scene well: a TFDQuery, an SQL string, a series of ParamByName calls and then, row by row, FieldByName('...').AsString to bring the data back into your objects. It works, and it’s fast. But every…
C++Builder is often treated as something of an exotic species within the wider C++ world. Sometimes that is said with a smile, sometimes quite seriously. Behind it lies a more fundamental question: how much does a development environment still belong to the C++ ecosystem…
