Two critical PHP bugs left many websites scrambling to fix
Last week, two serious bugs were found in PHP, the programming language behind roughly 70% of websites. Many organisations rushed to patch their systems, and some had to take sites offline until the flaws were fixed. Wiz's CTO warns of a coming vulnpocalypse as old code ages.
Quick glossaryWiz, PHP, vulnpocalypse
- Wiz
- Wiz is a cloud security company, founded in Israel, best known for helping firms find risks in their cloud systems.
- PHP
- A popular programming language that many websites are built on, so bugs in it affect a lot of sites.
- vulnpocalypse
- A feared wave of security holes in old software code, as bugs get found faster than they can be fixed.
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