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Wiz CTO warns of 'Vulnpocalypse' as PHP critical bugs expose aging internet code

Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the open-source language powering about 70% of websites, recently forced organizations to take systems offline for patching. Wiz's CTO warns that this incident signals a broader 'Vulnpocalypse' threatening the internet's aging codebase. The cleanup from these bugs is far from complete, highlighting systemic risks in widely used legacy software.

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The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the […]
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