PHP – Wide Gaping Security Risk?
With many of the internet’s web pages and applications based on PHP, many questions are being raised by the security and robustness of the system so to speak as we go through years of rapid development. Now the scripting language that is PHP isn;t meant to be weak security-wise and the problem lies with the sloppy work programmer have done all through the years that have left quite large and gaping security holes in something we so rely on. One event that greatly tripped the panic meters of developers the world over is the departure of one of the world’s leading authority on PHP, Stephan Esser, one of the founders of the language and a foundation of the web with him stating as an explanation that the security issues that are currently coming out are happening without his knowledge.
According to many of the world’s security experts, PHP-script based pages are the most vulnerable types of pages attacked each and every year. The years of irresponsible programming have begun to catch up, leaving all of us to deal with the security issues left in the wake. Whether to improve the security of the many pages, or to protect the many people who are exposed to the many security threats all over the globe, PHP continues to evolve as a safe and well degined foundation of the internet for many years to come.