Big Technology Podcast · Friday, October 23, 2026
Cognition CISO Alex Stamos discussed a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in PHP, which powers up to 70% of the world's websites. The bug was discovered as part of OpenAI's 'Hack the Planet' initiative and has triggered massive automated exploitation attempts.
“The creators of PHP, a technology that powers as many as 70% of the world's websites, disclosed a critical security issue that could be leveraged by hackers to take control of any system running its software.”
“The bug was found by a in a a project that was being run by OpenAI called Hack the Planet, in which they have been providing”