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PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet
Publisher description: 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.
TechCrunch | Oct 24, 2026 | Zack Whittaker
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The PHP Foundation, which maintains the PHP web software, publicly released patches on Wednesday that fixed the bugs, which when installed prevent web-facing servers from being attacked. The foundation had already given some of the biggest internet companies and web hosts that rely on PHP an early headstart on patching. Security researchers at Calif found two bugs in PHP, a programming language widely used around the world for building websites and web apps, both on the internet and hosted locally on company networks, like intranets and internal sites.
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