Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’
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TechCrunch’s Equity podcast recently featured Tomer Schwartz, CTO of Wiz, discussing the recent PHP2Shell vulnerabilities that affected approximately 70% of websites. The two critical bugs in the widely used open-source language forced many organizations to take systems offline while they scrambled for patches. Schwartz participated in the rapid response effort alongside OpenAI, the research group Calif, and the core PHP team to resolve the issues. Despite the immediate scare subsiding, researchers warn that this event is merely the beginning of a larger threat landscape. The discussion highlights how artificial intelligence is accelerating the discovery and exploitation of novel security vulnerabilities. Schwartz also addressed the challenges startups face in building secure applications from the ground up. Furthermore, he emphasized that manual patching processes are no longer scalable in the current cybersecurity environment.
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