Earlier this week, cybersecurity experts discovered something nasty online: two critical flaws in PHP, the code that has been used to build approximately two-thirds of the World Wide Web. On Tuesday, various European governments shut down websites as they scr…
Ondřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.
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Attackers began targeting the critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities four days before patches were released, Amazon.com Inc. has disclosed, while exploit attempts seen by Cloudflare Inc. have since climbed into the millions. PHP’s maintainers shipped fixes for th…
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The Agentic AI Foundation, a consortium that maintains open-source artificial intelligence tools, today took four new projects under its wing. The technologies were donated by OpenAI Group PBC, Anthropic PBC, Hugging Face Inc. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. T…
Britain Tells Families to Stock Food, Water and Cash as Be Ready Campaign Launches Amid Cyber Chaos Britain's new Be Ready campaign tells households to keep three days of food, water, cash and a wind-up radio as cyberattacks knock government sites offline. Th…
Partisan actors are gaming AI platforms to regurgitate misleading information ahead of critical elections in Brazil, Israel, and the US. Cybersecurity firms identified thousands of AI-generated websites purporting to be local US news sites, but “the sites are…
Israeli security operations startup Mave Security Ltd. today revealed it has raised $34 million in new funding to accelerate its frontier artificial intelligence research. Mave offers an agentic platform that pulls an enterprise’s existing security tools toge…
The U.S. Treasury Department has proposed a rule to crack down on American high-tech investments in China, Russia, North Korea and other “countries of concern
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Running artificial intelligence agents across an enterprise requires more than access to computing power. Companies also need to manage data security, governance and performance across cloud and on-premises systems, particularly as agentic workflows move into…
After researchers quietly found two devastating software vulnerabilities in August, they worked across borders and disciplines to develop patches that were released to the world on Wednesday morning.
PHP shipped its fix, attackers launched millions of attempts, and governments say no one has broken in yet. Here's what that means for your passwords, your crypto, and your browsing.
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Google Cloud executives Chris Betz, chief information security officer, and Raluca Ada Popa, head of Gemini Security at Google DeepMind, said PHP and cybersecurity firm Wiz Research disclosed the two vulnerabilities after research that used multiple AI models…
(Refiles to add dropped words "unsolicited links" in SCAMMERS section)By AJ VicensOct 22 : Much of the world woke Wednesday to news that PHP, a coding language most people have never heard of but that underlies roughly 70 per cent of all websites, had a hacka…
Canada’s Parliament is debating a massive expansion of surveillance powers that will threaten the privacy and security of millions of people. Bill C-22, also called the Lawful Access Act, has already passed the House of Commons, and is now before the Canadian…
Drug discovery chemistry startup Warp Sciences Inc. launched today with $215 million in new funding, six months after co-founder and Chief Executive Kevin Weil left his job running science initiatives at OpenAI Group PBC. Warp is building a chemistry contract…
There were few, if any, reports of widespread damage by hackers exploiting PHP flaws, experts said, one day after officials warned of severe vulnerabilities.
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities sent criminal forum operators scrambling to protect their own infrastructure, revealing that threat actors face the same exposure management challenges as the organizations they target.Key takeaways<ol><li>The adversary econom…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- FlyersRights, the National Consumers League, the American Economic Liberties Project, Travelers United, and Consumer Action have formally requested the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) withdraw its direct final…
Cloudflare reported millions of attempts to exploit the widely used web software, while researchers warned that compromised sites could also put visitors at risk.
A couple of days ago, when commenting on Alina Habba getting $50 million for a fake job as part of a quid pro quo to give a Venezuelan plutocrat sleazeball a presidential pardon, I wondered that if this is the kind of stuff that’s going on more or less in the…
