The biggest-ever internet security threat has been known for 22 years. AI made it a crisis in 2 days

In July 2004, security researcher Stefan Esser sent a warning. A critical flaw in PHP, the programming language that powers 70% of the world’s websites, could allow an attacker to do some seriously nefarious stuff: read passwords, steal databases or even take over entire websites. But Esser’s warning went mostly ignored for decades. In 2020, … The post The biggest-ever internet security threat has been known for 22 years. AI made it a crisis in 2 days appeared first on Egypt Independent.
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