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Tentacle CMS is a new open source PHP content management system released to aid non-technical users in building and running their own website or blog. Some of Tentacle CMS' most important features include a graphic installer for easily setting it up, an administration backend for managing content, MVC-based cor... |
19 May 2012
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After the first security update failed to properly address the PHP-CGI issue made public by mistake a few days ago, the PHP Group made another attempt to fix the source code disclosure and remote code execution vulnerabilities. PHP 5.4.3 and PHP 5.3.13 resolve CVE-2012-2311 and CVE-2012-1823, the CVEs associated wit... |
9 May 2012
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Security researchers from Trustwave’s SpiderLabs have noticed that one of their honeypots has recorded a number of attempts to exploit the recently uncovered PHP-CGI vulnerability. For now, no successful exploits have been identified, but it’s clear that cybercriminals are probing systems in search for ... |
7 May 2012
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After the PHP-CGI bug was made public, PHP rushed to issue a patch, but as it later turned out, it didn’t completely address the problem. Researchers from De Eindbazen have added a new patch that should fix the vulnerability, but it only works if applied on top of the official PHP security update. PHP have alm... |
5 May 2012
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Dutch security experts from De Eindbazen have found a dangerous PHP-CGI flaw that could be remotely leveraged by an attacker for command execution and source code disclosure.
According to the researchers, while playing Nullcon CTF, they’ve noticed that if they input an “?-s” query string, it result... |
3 May 2012
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Adaptive Images is a small PHP script for implementing responsive design principles to web images. It works by sniffing the visitor's screen size and automatically resizing the image to fit the user's viewport.A smart idea indeed, since devices accessing the Web have diversified so much that there's no... |
24 April 2012
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After the PHP Group fixed the hash collision issue by releasing a patch to mitigate attacks, the fix turned out to be problematic, experts identifying a remote code execution vulnerability. Now, it turns out that the same variant opened up the possibility of a new class of HTTP header attacks. Stefan Esser, the secu... |
6 February 2012
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The security researcher and the developer of the Suhosin PHP Extension, Stefan Esser, found a serious arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability and reported it to the PHP Group. As a result, PHP 5.3.10 was released to address the issue. It’s not certain if the older versions are affected, but the latest st... |
3 February 2012
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Stefan Esser, the developer of Suhosin, the advanced protection system for PHP installations, revealed the availability of Suhosin Extension 0.9.33 that addresses a stack buffer overflow issue that exists in the transparent cookie encryption.
The medium risk vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to execute a... |
20 January 2012
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After researchers showed how some programing language implementations and platforms were susceptible to hash collision attacks, PHP being among them, the PHP Group released PHP 5.3.9 which resolves the issue.
So far, the max_input_vars directive that mitigated hash collision attacks was present in PHP 5.4.0 RC4, but... |
13 January 2012
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A couple of researchers showed how a common flaw in the implementation of the most popular web programming languages and applications can be used to force servers to use their CPU at full capacity for several minutes, causing a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Julian Wälde and Alexander Klink made a presentat... |
29 December 2011
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Researchers showed that some programing language implementations didn’t sufficiently randomize their hash functions or provide means to limit key collision attacks. Among the ones affected by this issue is PHP 5. “PHP 5 uses the DJBX33A (Dan Bernstein's times 33, addition) hash function and parses P... |
29 December 2011
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Facebook has announced a new development for its 'PHP to C++ converter' HipHop. There is now a HipHop virtual machine, which converts PHP code on-the-fly and also provides a huge performance boost over previous methods.Almost two years ago, Facebook unveiled HipHop, a tool for converting PHP code into nativ... |
10 December 2011
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PHP 5.4 is getting closer as the first release candidate has been made available. This late in the development process, no new features are being added, it's all about the bug fixing.Still, if you've been itching to try your hand at some of the new things in the latest major version of the scripting languag... |
14 November 2011
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The latest version of PFP on Windows allows developers to take advantage of quite a consistent performance boost, all the more reason for them to upgrade.In all fairness, PHP 5.3 on Windows has been around for a while, but there are still projects leveraging older iterations of the technology. Microsoft’s Brian... |
13 October 2011
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Microsoft remains strongly committed to ensuring the developers leveraging PHP and Java for their projects will be able to enjoy interoperability with the next generation of its data platform. Still in development under the codename Denali, the next version of SQL Server will play nice with both Java and PHP applica... |
30 August 2011
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Developers building services and applications on top of Microsoft’s Cloud leveraging PHP or Java can now access a collection of new code samples offered free of charge by the Redmond company. A set of fresh Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus samples for PHP and Java are now up for grabs via Microsoft CodePlex... |
29 July 2011
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WordPress 3.2 is almost here. The latest update to the very popular open source blogging software comes with several nice new features, but it also comes with new minimum requirements, both on the backend and the frontend.
On the server you'll be running WordPress 3.2, you will need to have PHP 5.2.4 or abov... |
4 July 2011
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Webmasters are advised to manually patch their PHP installations after a serious flaw allowing attackers to potentially delete files from their root directories was publicly disclosed.The vulnerability lies in the "SAPI_POST_HANDLER_FUNC()" function in rfc1867.c and can be exploited to append forward or back slashes ... |
15 June 2011
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Developers leveraging Microsoft’s SQL Server Driver for PHP should make sure to use the latest release, as version 1.1 was deprecated. The Microsoft Download Center now features an updated page for v1.1 of the driver under the following title SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 - October 2009 – Deprecated. Es... |
3 June 2011
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PHP developers can now access new and enhanced resources from Microsoft, designed to let them leverage their existing set of skills to build Windows Azure applications and services. Even back when Microsoft’s Cloud platform was still referred to mainly under the codename Red Dog, the company had placed interop... |
27 May 2011
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Microsoft is ready to welcome PHP and MySQL developers to its platform with open arms. One illustrative example of the company’s efforts to attract devs beyond those leveraging .NET is the PHP on Windows and SQL Server Training Kit.The February 2011 Update of the kit just went live on the Microsoft Download Ce... |
24 February 2011
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Microsoft has released an update designed to fix a number of issues in the most recent release of the company’s drivers designed to allow PHP developers to build applications that can connect seamlessly with SQL Server databases. The Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server update went live at the end of the p... |
1 December 2010
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Windows Azure is a tangible example of Microsoft’s strong efforts to drive interoperability and to build a truly open platform. Developers can already create Cloud projects using ASP.NET, C#, PHP and Java, but the software giant’s work is far from over, with new enhancements delivered constantly, the lat... |
1 November 2010
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Microsoft has launched a new community technology preview of the plug-in it offers PHP developers using Eclipse to build Cloud applications for Windows Azure.The release is the October 2010 CTP of Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse/PHP, which has been available for a few days now to all PHP devs. Early adopters that h... |
14 October 2010
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A new open source project available free of charge from Microsoft CodePlex is designed to simplify the management of multiple PHP installations running on version 7.0 of Internet Information Services. Essentially, PHP Manager for IIS offers a graphical user interface (GUI) for enabling customers to not only set up b... |
31 August 2010
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WordPress is one of the most popular blog hosting platforms in the world, but it’s also one of the most popular pieces of open-source software. From small-times bloggers to some of the biggest sites out there, WordPress is a widely used choice. So any changes are bound to affect a lot of people. WordPress is no... |
26 July 2010
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A new open source project available from Microsoft is designed to simplify the work for PHP developers looking to leverage Bing search results in their applications. The Bing Search Library for PHP is now available for download from the Redmond company’s open source project repository, CodePlex. According to Ge... |
3 June 2010
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The popular content-management system Joomla is getting ready for a big update. The Joomla 1.6 Beta has been released bringing with it a number of new features and plenty of smaller updates. Developers can get started testing the upcoming release, but the update is not intended for stable production environments. &... |
18 May 2010
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A new open source project from Microsoft allows developers to bridge SQL Server Reporting Services with PHP applications. SQL Server Reporting Services SDK (Software Development Kit) for PHP was released on the Redmond company’s repository for open source project, CodePlex, last week, and it is available as a f... |
12 April 2010
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Microsoft continues to work in order to woo PHP developers, attesting to drawing them away from Linux and Apache and converting them to its own Windows Server and Internet Information Services. One of the incentives that the Redmond company is offering is related to free training for those that decide to build on top... |
26 March 2010
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As one of the biggest websites in the world and certainly one of the most complex, Facebook is looking at any trick in the book to squeeze some more performance out of its infrastructure. One of the most ambitious undertakings, one it kept quiet about until now, HipHop for PHP is a project designed to speed up the p... |
3 February 2010
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Microsoft is making consistent efforts to warm up to PHP developers and to get them to leverage its Cloud operating system. The company has worked together with Zend Technologies in order to make sure that version 1.10 of the open source Zend Framework 1.10 plays nice with Windows Azure. On January 28th, Zend techno... |
29 January 2010
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Customers running versions 6 and 5.1 of Internet Information Services (IIS) web servers will now be able to better accommodate application frameworks that support the FastCGI protocol. Microsoft has recently announced that FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 has been finalized and released to web. Designed ... |
25 January 2010
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Following our usual monthly report, we present the conclusions of the recent Elance Work Index, a top provided by Elance, which ranks the most desired skills in today's online freelance work. Even if the latest report is only for the month of October, PHP skills seem to have won the competition for the number on... |
17 November 2009
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Microsoft is reviewing long term priorities and goals related to the evolution of its data platform. In this regard, the Redmond company is asking for feedback that will serve to put together SQL Server Connectivity customer profiles. The SQL Connectivity Customer Profile Survey is now live, and it is set up to allow... |
5 October 2009
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As usual, we present the recent changes in labor demand in the world of webmasters, developers and web-designers from the huge marketplace that is the Internet. And from the Internet, there is no other place bigger than Elance when it comes to online labor markets. This month's report comes to present a worldwid... |
18 September 2009
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Microsoft has made one step forward with its interoperability efforts, namely the bridging of PHP and .NET, with the release of the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services at the end of the past week. The PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services is currently available as an open-source project on CodePlex and, although it... |
24 August 2009
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The PHP SDK for Windows Azure fits perfectly in Microsoft's vision of driving interoperability between its proprietary technologies and open-source solutions, and especially in tailoring PHP to its Windows Server operating system. At the same time, the Redmond company is looking to take interoperability one step... |
14 May 2009
05:32 GMT |
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The Apache Stonehenge project is evolving toward what Microsoft referred to as the first key milestone. Milestone 1 is synonymous with sample applications built with different languages, and designed for specific platforms, being deployed together in an effort to drive interoperability. Microsoft is a participant in ... |
13 May 2009
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As it is building its first example of a Cloud operating system, Microsoft has introduced a challenge designed to provide incentives for developers to build .NET and PHP applications on top of Windows Azure. Opened exclusively to US developers, the new CloudApp() challenge promises to give the winning participants ex... |
5 May 2009
07:18 GMT |
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Starting with IIS7 and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has increased the focus on luring LAMP engineers and developers towards its platform and adjacent technologies. One aspect of the Redmond company's efforts in this regard is ensuring that PHP on Windows delivers the same level of performance as on the open-so... |
4 May 2009
05:31 GMT |
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The manual creation or customization of templates for Joomla! Content management system could be a complex task for beginners. The existence of template development tools that integrate with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web authoring applications will definitely simplify the process of building custom temp... |
24 June 2008
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 can be used to develop PHP applications with the help of VS.Php, an integrated development environment for Visual Studio. PHP programming language is commonly used to make web based applications. Many open source frameworks have been created based on PHP programming language. The new rel... |
23 June 2008
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With over 129000 downloads since february 2006, OrangeHRM has proven that it could be a potential leader on the market of open source HRM (Human Resources Management) software. OrangeHRM is an HRIS (Human Resources Information System) that creates a logic bridge between HRM and information processing through web bas... |
12 June 2008
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PHP 4, one of the best scripting languages, deployed on tens of millions is approaching its end. But this could be good news also, because it will be replaced by PHP 5.The security updates for the language will be concluded in August, this year. On February 5th, a group of influential Open Source projects will stop a... |
1 February 2008
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As you undoubtedly know by now, Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn is the first Microsoft server operating system to deliver native support for PHP hosting out of the box. Why is this a big deal? Well, web developers, and especially PHP developers already have the answer to this question, but I will sti... |
23 November 2007
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The race between the Windows and Linux operating systems is multifaceted, and one aspect revolves around the PHP scripting language. But PHP is merely an item from an infrastructure of software, a solution stack designed to be the foundation of websites and servers. Essentially, Microsoft has recently upped the stake... |
15 October 2007
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Microsoft announced a new initiative designed to take Internet passwords to the next level, via a strategic collaboration with Zend Technologies. The Zend/PHP Conference and Expo (ZendCon) was the stage where the Redmond company announced that it was expanding the interoperability partnership with Zend, focusing on t... |
10 October 2007
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The best way to protect data transfers between client and server is the SSL/SSH protocol. Unfortunately, this protocol doesn`t protect the data stored in the database. SSL is an on-the-wire protocol. Once an attacker gains access to your database directly (bypassing the webserver), the stored sensitive data may be ex... |
27 September 2007
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