On Sunday some malicious actors tried to install a back door into the PHP code library, a server-side programming language that powers 79% of sites on the internet, including Facebook and Wikipedia.

PHP 3 was released in mid-1998. Some basic object-oriented (OO) capabilities were included, more or less as an afterthought, to "provide new ways of accessing arrays." 1 No significant changes were ...

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Security researchers this week identified two corrupt Python and PHP packages in what appears to be yet another instance of a software supply chain attack targeting the open-source ecosystem. Python ...