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Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’
Publisher description: 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 […]
TechCrunch | Oct 28, 2026 | Theresa Loconsolo
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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. On this episode of TechCrunch’sEquity podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks with Tomer Schwartz, CTO of Exposure Management & AppSec at Google-owned Wiz, who was part of the scramble — alongside OpenAI, research group Calif, and the PHP team — to fix the bugs. Theresa Loconsolo is an audio producer at TechCrunch focusing on Equity, the network’s flagship podcast.
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