Stories by Lucian Constantin

Hundreds of DreamHost websites abused by spammers

Rogue PHP pages that redirect users to work-at-home scams have been added to hundreds of websites hosted at DreamHost following a security breach suffered by the company in January, researchers from cloud security vendor Zscaler said.

PHP 5.3.10 fixes critical remote code execution vulnerability

The PHP Group <a href="http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-02-02-1">released PHP 5.3.10</a> on Thursday in order to address a critical security flaw that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on servers running an older version of the Web development platform.

Zscaler launches free-to-use URL scanning service

Cloud security vendor Zscaler has launched a new free-to-use online service called <a href="http://zulu.zscaler.com">Zulu</a> that can assess the security risk associated with URLs by analyzing the content they point to, as well as the reputation of their corresponding domain names and IP addresses.

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