Did one of your favorite websites go dark on Wednesday? Some did, as operators took services offline while they waited for fixes to two critical flaws in PHP , the language behind much of the web. The precaution didn’t mean those sites were hacked. The holes themselves were bad news with a capital B. But the bigger long-term concern might be how the embargo on the patches was handled. PHP powers roughly 70% of websites, but that figure describes PHP’s reach, not the number of vulnerable or compromised sites. WordPress told site owners to update PHP; these flaws don’t require a WordPress...

Source: The New Stack