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Standing on our own two feet

Update, July 10, 2023 See our new blog post for details on the September 2024 expiration of the newer ISRG Root X1 cross-sign from IdenTrust. Update, December 21, 2020 Thanks to community feedback and our wonderful partners at IdenTrust, we will be able to continue to offer service without interruption to people using…

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Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain

Introduction Hello, I’m RyotaK (@ryotkak ), a security engineer at Flatt Security Inc. A few days ago, I was upgrading my home lab network, and I decided to upgrade the OpenWrt on my router.1 After accessing the LuCI, which is the web interface of OpenWrt, I noticed that there is a section called Attended Sysupgrade…

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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS. We’re deeply sorry for this outage. This outage…

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Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued

Let’s Encrypt has reached a milestone: we’ve now issued more than 100,000,000 certificates. This number reflects at least a few things: First, it illustrates the strong demand for our services. We’d like to thank all of the sysadmins, web developers, and everyone else managing servers for prioritizing protecting your…

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Pi-hole v6

We’ve integrated a new REST API and embedded web server directly into the pihole-FTL binary. This eliminates the need for lighttpd and PHP , reducing the installation footprint and boosting performance. The new API also offers server-side pagination for the query log, ensuring a faster and more responsive interface.

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.INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications

Whereas, on 1 March 2019, the Board took action on each of the 35 recommendations issued within the Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice (CCT) Review Team Final Report dated 8 September 2018, as specified within the scorecard titled " Final CCT Recommendations: Board Action (1 March 2019) ". The Board…