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The ‘Vulnpocalypse’ is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO

From TechCrunch: 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.

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TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Wednesday, October 28, 2026, ranked 18
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Commentary or analysis: someone’s view, not a reported fact.
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Security, Open source
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