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Is your website vulnerable? Inside PHP’s “Black October” | Equity Podcast

The internet is having an off week, to say the least. Security researchers at OpenAI and Google-owned Wiz used AI to uncover critical flaws in PHP, the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites, including those built on WordPress, WooCommerce, and Magento. The holes date back more than a decade, and now that a…

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The internet is having an off week, to say the least.

Security researchers at OpenAI and Google-owned Wiz used AI to uncover critical flaws in PHP, the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites, including those built on WordPress, WooCommerce, and Magento. The holes date back more than a decade, and now that a fix is out, companies are scrambling to patch their systems as attackers try to exploit the them.

On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and Anthony Ha dig into why AI-powered bug hunting could make this the first of many internet-wide scares, what Elon Musk’s careful choreography says about where a Tesla-SpaceX merger is headed, and more of the week’s headlines.

Chapters:
0:00 – Intro: PHP security crisis, Tesla and SpaceX, and Otter.ai’s $320M raise
0:55 – TechCrunch Disrupt recap and the Elizabeth Holmes documentary
2:50 – Critical PHP vulnerabilities threaten millions of websites
8:01 – AI’s role in discovering and exploiting cybersecurity flaws
13:09 – The future of AI-powered cybersecurity
17:07 – Are Tesla and SpaceX finally merging?
19:10 – Elon Musk’s influence over both companies’ boards
22:50 – Why a Tesla-SpaceX merger could make financial sense
25:27 – Musk’s plan to give American children SpaceX shares
27:08 – Character.AI’s bankruptcy and Disney’s involvement
30:21 – OpenAI acquires biotech startup Orchestra Bio
33:00 – Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst
35:30 – Outro

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