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PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet

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Two critical PHP bugs threatened to crash the majority of the internet, highlighting the persistent risk of major software vulnerabilities.

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Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.

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