PHP has become the most popular application language on the web, but common security mistakes by developers are giving PHP a bad name. Here’s how PHP coding errors have become the new low-hanging fruit for attackers, contributing to the phishing problems on the web.
PHP became one of my favorite languages because of how quickly one can write a highly functional, standards-based web application with a database back-end. Unfortunately, attackers are taking these applications down even faster than they appear.