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PHP maintains an enormous lead in server-side programming languages

Enlarge / Ruby is the only server-side web language which experienced much growth over the last decade—and the closest remaining “threat” to PHP, despite having only 6.5% the presence. (credit: w3techs) The venerable web programming language PHP is a source of frequent complaints and frustration, but according to a report W3Techs released today, it doesn’t seem […]

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Hackers backdoor PHP source code after breaching internal git server

Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto) A hacker compromised the server used to distribute the PHP programming language and added a backdoor to source code that would have made websites vulnerable to complete takeover, members of the open source project said. Two updates pushed to the PHP Git server over the weekend added […]