Wiz CTO discusses PHP critical-bug cleanup on Equity podcast
Original title: Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’
Schwartz says he joined OpenAI, Calif and the PHP team after two critical bugs forced some sites offline.
TechCrunch’s Equity podcast interviews Tomer Schwartz, CTO of Exposure Management and AppSec at Google-owned Wiz, about last week’s two critical bugs in PHP. The show says the language is behind roughly 70% of websites and that some organizations took sites offline until they could patch. Researchers who found the bugs say AI will speed how quickly new flaws are found and exploited. The episode also covers startup security practices and why manual patching will not scale.
Unconfirmed: The item does not name the bugs, versions, or confirm real-world exploitation.
- Some organizations took websites offline until the PHP vulnerabilities were patched.
- Schwartz worked on the fix alongside OpenAI, research group Calif and the PHP team.
- The episode argues hand patching will not scale as AI speeds vulnerability discovery.
From the original article
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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 […]
By Theresa Loconsolo · techcrunch.com
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