Category: security

  • Many years ago I stumbled upon PHPIDS and began incorporating it into all the systems that I built. I wanted to have an extra layer of intel into who was accessing my systems. Last year, at php[tek]13, @enygma started building Exposé, an alternate IDS, based upon the same rulesets as PHPIDS (perhaps motivated by my…

  • Earlier this week, Imperva Data Security Blog posted an article and whitepaper by Amichai Shulman lamenting the continued evils of PHP as a language because of the use of “SuperGlobals”. Here are a few reasons why the article is FUD.