I woke up to panicked text messages about the PHP attacks. As a cybersecurity expert, here are the 3 things I tell people to do right away.
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A cybersecurity product manager explains why two PHP flaws sparked mass panic — and shares 3 steps website owners can take to protect their sites.
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Yonaton Keller is a product manager at Zafran Security and has been working on the exposed PHP vulnerabilities.Courtesy of Yonaton KellerPHP, the open-source computer programming language, had two major vulnerabilities exposed.Yonaton Keller woke on Wednesday to panicked messages about the two PHP vulnerabilities.He shares three steps you can take to protect your website.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Yonaton Keller, a 46-year-old product manager at Zafran Security, based in Tel Aviv. His words have been edited for length and clarity.When I woke up at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, I had multiple messages from around 4:45 a.m. alerting me that two vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language had been disclosed.I immediately understood that this was a very serious situation.Websites run different versions of PHP, and it's estimated that around 70% of websites worldwide use it. This isn't the first time PHP vulnerabilities have been found, but these ones require…