On Sunday some malicious actors tried to install a back door into the PHP code library, a server-side programming language that powers 79% of sites on the internet, including Facebook and Wikipedia.

It seems Facebook wasn’t satisfied with merely building a virtual machine for PHP, HHVM, which compiles that language to C++ for faster execution. Facebook has now gone ahead and made a full-blown ...

Details remain foggy about a recent security breach at the PHP PEAR website, a crucial, but lesser-known part of the PHP ecosystem. PEAR, which stands for "PHP Extension and Application Repository," ...

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Facebook announced it is open-sourcing its Hack Codegen ...

Keatron Evans teaches his students to build hacking tools that can invade the computers of unsuspecting users, stealing information, freezing programs and infecting them with invisible viruses. But ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Not everyone agrees on what to call Barrett Brown. He has been dubbed a journalist, a hacktivist, a criminal ...