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[Derek Devicemanager @IT_unhinged]

Security called me at 6:12 AM today.

"Patch every PHP server immediately."

I asked what happened.

"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."

Cool.

How many PHP servers do we have?

According to inventory: 12

According to reality:

Nobody knows.

We found one running WordPress.

Three running old internal tools.

One under someone's desk.

Two inside vendor appliances.

A forgotten employee directory from 2016.

And a server named:

PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH

Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.

Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.

I asked who owned it.

The documentation said:

BRIAN.

Brian left in 2019.

We called Brian.

He said:

"Oh wow, that's still running?"

Excellent.

By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.

CEO:

"Can hackers actually get in?"

Security:

"Potentially yes."

CEO:

"Without a password?"

Security:

"Yes."

CEO:

"Then why do WE need passwords?"

Not the lesson.

Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.

Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.

Finance asked for a cost comparison.

At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.

Marketing refused.

"Our campaign is live."

So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.

We finally patched everything we could find.

Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.

Hostname:

TEMP-PHP-2014

Uptime:

4,512 days.

Nobody knows what it does.

Nobody owns it.

Nobody can shut it down.

But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.

Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.

It is running PHP 5.4.

The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.

The emergency patch took four hours.

Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.

The internet isn't held together with code.

It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.

[Joanne 🍊🪄 @mikrolactaki3]

Η άμυνα της εθνικής σήμερα
#gretur

[🍒 Angelos Garris @angelosgarris]

Θαναηλακης πήρε την προσφορά του τραπεζίτη

[Candidus @Candidushandma1]

Παίζει να είναι η χειρότερη #τελετή_έναρξης στην ιστορία των Ολυμπιακων αγώνων

#Ολυμπιακοι_Αγωνες #Παρισι

[ARGO-E @ArgoEcom]

We're thrilled to announce the launch of the new #ISSMGE Heritage Time Capsule (HTC) website! Explore a vast collection of contributions from geotechnical professionals worldwide, all in one dynamic and user-friendly platform. https://t.co/uzsTsormso

[ARGO-E @ArgoEcom]

Discover the benefits of hybrid mobile development and learn how Ionic can streamline development and ensure broader reach. #mobileapp #ionicframework #hybridappdevelopment https://t.co/IuPI8vIvEf

[ARGO-E @ArgoEcom]

Wishing everyone a New Year filled with fresh opportunities, exciting challenges, health and happiness. To each member of our team, thank you for your contribution and commitment! #teamwork #NewYear2024 #infrastructure #dataanalytics #informatics #uav

[Clarifai @clarifai]

A Machine Learning course from Stanford taught by Andrew Ng!

You'll learn:

• Linear/Logistic regression
• Decision Trees
• KNN
• Support Vector Machines
• Neural Networks
• Naive Bayes
• Gradient Descent

Check this out:

https://t.co/Gj2AFHVabg

[Jeffrey Way @jeffrey_way]

My "@phpstorm for Laravel Developers" series is now 100% complete and free to watch. Learn about:

- Automatic refactoring
- AI support
- The Laravel Idea plugin
- Xdebug integration
- Testing workflow

...and lots more. 👍

https://t.co/sXnoj5ghBl

[Dimitrios Zekkos, PhD, PE @DZekkos]

Dear @elonmusk, Our twitter-based research on the impact of natural hazards on people and infrastructure is impacted by the interruption of the Streaming API service. We tried to connect with Twitter on this, but were unsuccessful. Can you help? Would be greatly appreciated.

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

I've done it, I've published a YouTube video!

It's called "PHP is the future."

Let me know what you think!
https://t.co/b20YOHccnE

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

All 64 videos for the free MySQL course have been recorded, edited, reviewed for technical accuracy, packaged, and uploaded!

Attached is the final video list, I cannot wait for y'all to see this.

We're finalizing the website and launching soon 🚀👨‍🚀

https://t.co/p5WKFo1vzK

[ISSMGE @ISSMGE]

ISSMGE is pleased to announce the launch of its Conference Review Platform (CRP). https://t.co/WH9AU4jKnx

[Dimitrios Zekkos, PhD, PE @DZekkos]

Wow... today's #Searles Valley #earthquake in South California has caused huge activity on Twitter. Already 200,000+ tweets. I talked about earthquake-related twitter activity about a week ago at ICONHIC . #earthquakeLA @SCEC More here: https://t.co/98EhM3414C

[Matt Stauffer @mattstauffer]

This is very, very clever.

It’s a web-based builder that gives you a really clean syntax to quickly scaffold migrations, controllers, etc. for your models in a new @laravelphp project:

https://t.co/mNlCcDb0s8

[Caleb Porzio ⚡️ @calebporzio]

🎉🎉 Alright, the official Livewire landing page is live now. (with all the documentation)

Go give it a read, and maybe give this a share 😘

https://t.co/FRMEckE1Es

[ARGO-E @ArgoEcom]

Watch our impressive 2018 earthquake map timeline and let us know what do you see at the end of the video!

Find out more about our research team's work on earthquake related social media activity

https://t.co/hbaCLh0bal

#earthquake #timeline #datamining

[ARGO-E @ArgoEcom]

Now you can connect with the biggest geotechnical community with just one TAP! GeoWord Android app is a reality! Spread the news to your friends and colleagues!https://t.co/UtqyuDyXiH

[Διομήδης Σπινέλλης @DSpinellis]

Να γιατί το λογισμικό πρέπει να ελέγχεται και όταν κατασκευάζεται και πριν μπει σε παραγωγική λειτουργία.

[A T @altsavalas]

Yet another auto post on Twitter with Codebird library on Laravel #php #twitter #laravel #codebird