Unknown attackers compromised the official PHP Git server and planted a backdoor in the source code of the programming language, potentially putting websites using the tainted code at risk of complete ...

Critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in a popular WordPress plugin have been made public. The RCE bugs impact PHP Everywhere, a utility for web developers to be able to use PHP code in ...

A PHP ransomware project open-sourced on GitHub is still spawning active threats, more than a year after it was released in early 2016. The project, unimaginatively named "Ransomware," is the work of ...

Maintainers of the open-source PHP programming language have locked down the php.net website after discovering two of its servers were hacked to host malicious code designed to surreptitiously install ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...