PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet
Summary
Two critical security vulnerabilities recently discovered in the widely used PHP programming language posed a major threat to the global web infrastructure. Industry experts warn that this incident highlights ongoing systemic risks, suggesting that similar software security scares are likely to happen again in the future.
Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.
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