On Sunday some malicious actors tried to install a back door into the PHP code library, a server-side programming language that powers 79% of sites on the internet, including Facebook and Wikipedia.

It seems Facebook wasn’t satisfied with merely building a virtual machine for PHP, HHVM, which compiles that language to C++ for faster execution. Facebook has now gone ahead and made a full-blown ...

Facebook last week open sourced an internal programming language called Hack, developed by its engineers to improve upon -- while remaining compatible with -- the PHP scripting language running much ...

Details remain foggy about a recent security breach at the PHP PEAR website, a crucial, but lesser-known part of the PHP ecosystem. PEAR, which stands for "PHP Extension and Application Repository," ...

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Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, ...

Instead of throwing out years of legacy code, Facebook built a new branch of the language that originally underpinned TheFacebook.com. Here’s the story behind a two-year labor of love. “Every PHP ...

Digging into how sites and web content management systems are most often hacked, and what you can do to reduce the risk of it happening to you. (Editor's note: This story has been updated.) We hear ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Not everyone agrees on what to call Barrett Brown. He has been dubbed a journalist, a hacktivist, a criminal ...

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, ...