Wiz CTO discusses PHP2Shell and the coming “vulnpocalypse”
Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’

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On TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks with Tomer Schwartz, CTO of Exposure Management & AppSec at Google-owned Wiz, about the response to two critical PHP bugs. Schwartz was part of the effort alongside OpenAI, research group Calif, and the PHP team to fix them. They also discuss how AI may change vulnerability discovery and exploitation, security for early-stage startups, and why patching by hand won’t scale.
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