Suburban Chicago PHP

This was a talk given at Google, covering the kinds of security issues websites are facing these days.

In case you didn’t see the news, tens of thousands of web sites were hacked to infect visitors and hijack their PCs. The sites were apparently modified by a script that found SQL injection vulnerabilities in sites and used them to add its own code to, well, pretty much every field on every record [...]

Christian’s presentation from August:
Register Globals
 
Why are webhosts paranoid and turn register_globals off? PHP version 4.2 and later comes with register_globals turned off by default and rumor has it that PHP 6 does not even support register_globals.

Dave’s presentation from August: