As some of you might have noticed, the Site PHP.net was infected yesterday with Malware. If you are running a shared hosting environment, you are also be faced with similar Malware problems. Beside XSS attacks and compromised server systems on OS-level, very widely used attack scenarios are stolen user…
Indeed, there is much crappy PHP application code out there in the wild. Anyways ... when you have to care about webservers you may have systems which are relying on PHP. Upgrading this systems to the next major PHP version may break projects hosted on those systems, cause there is deprecated…
In the last days I uploaded several (new) packages to backports.org: mailscanner 4.79.11-2~bpo50+1 icinga 1.0.1-3~bpo50+1 (NEW queue) nagios3 3.2.0-5~bpo50+1 php-suhosin 0.9.31-1~bpo50+1 (NEW queue) A new haproxy 1.4.4-1~bpo50+1 package is…
Since some weeks I'm really busy, private and at work. It's going into the end of the year and everybody is in hurry. There seems also coming some changes for our family down the road in the future, but more maybe later. Additionally one months ago Santiago Ruano Rincón did…
Since etch php is compiled with large file support. This breaks binary compatibility to other packages, which are commonly not compiled with LFS and leads into trouble with 3rd party extensions, cause these are precompiled against the ABI of upstream and LFS not turned on. One example is Zend Optimizer.…