June 2009

PHP 5.3 Released!

Posted by Dave on June 30, 2009 in php

PHP 5.3 has been released. Also, Eclipse Galileo was recently released as well as PDT 2.1 which has support for PHP 5.3!
The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This […]

New PHP Intepreter-Based XSS and SQL Security Tester

Posted by Dave on June 19, 2009 in php

Researchers from MIT, Stanford and Syracuse have developed a program named “Ardilla” which can analyze PHP code for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL injection attack vulnerabilities. The researchers say Ardilla found 68 never-before found vulnerabilities in five different PHP applications using the tool — 23 SQL injection and 45 XSS flaws.
Ardilla is an automated tool […]