PHP-ocalypse? | The CS50 Show with David J. Malan | Season 1, Episode 2

In today's episode, a worldwide scramble to update servers, cyberattacks on … freezers, and a trip to San Francisco. This is the CS50 Show, wherein we not only talk about current events in technology but also explain them to you. *** CHAPTERS 0:00 hello, world 0:32 LG TV 6:40 Freezers 10:08 PHP 16:14 GitHub Universe 18:02 Git Commits, PRs 21:48 Bank of America Email *** SHOW NOTES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA https://www.lg.com/us/newsroom/corporate/statement-understanding-privacy-on-lg-smart-tvs https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/advice/is-your-tv-listening-to-you/ https://lgads.tv/winning-political-ctv-strategies-for-2026/ https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf https://watchingthewatchers.github.io/watchingthewatchers/ https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10010616/ https://iabcanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Samsung-Ads-ACR-Guide-CA.pdf https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3646547.3689013 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/php-ocalypse-how-two-critical-web-bugs-almost-broke-the-internet/ https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/languages https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories https://calif.io/php2shell/ https://patchtheplanet.org/ https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rce https://www.wiz.io/about https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-21-5 https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rce https://www.wired.com/story/kernel-panic-the-php-meltdown-shows-how-ai-makes-bugs-more-exploitable/ https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/eu-agency-warns-websites-may-need-be-taken-offline-php-prepares-patches-2026-10-21/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AArI948SDz8 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/bank-of-america-kindly-asks-that-you-dont-share-your-banking-password-with-your-ai-assistant/ https://claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controller-defrost-the-food-uncovering-vulnerabilities-in-danfoss-refrigeration-controllers https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2025-41450 *** From the team that brought you CS50 at Harvard, Yale, and Oxford, this is the Fifty Foundation, led by David J. Malan et al. Theatrical courses in computer science and math. For free, for all. 🎭 *** HOW TO SUBSCRIBE http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=cs50tv HOW TO TAKE CS50 edX: https://cs50.edx.org/ Harvard Extension School: https://cs50.harvard.edu/extension Harvard Summer School: https://cs50.harvard.edu/summer OpenCourseWare: https://cs50.harvard.edu/x HOW TO JOIN CS50 COMMUNITIES Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/cs50.harvard.edu Discord: https://discord.gg/cs50 Ed: https://cs50.edx.org/ed Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cs50/ Faceboook Page: https://www.facebook.com/cs50/ GitHub: https://github.com/cs50 Gitter: https://gitter.im/cs50/x Instagram: https://instagram.com/cs50 LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7437240/ LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/school/cs50/ Medium: https://cs50.medium.com/ Quora: https://www.quora.com/topic/CS50 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cs50/ Slack: https://cs50.edx.org/slack Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/cs50 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/cs50 Stack Exchange: https://cs50.stackexchange.com/ Telegram: https://t.me/cs50x Threads: https://www.threads.net/@cs50 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cs50 Twitter: https://twitter.com/cs50 Twitter Community: https://twitter.com/i/communities/1722308663522594923 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/cs50 HOW TO FOLLOW DAVID J. MALAN Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dmalan GitHub: https://github.com/dmalan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidjmalan/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malan/ Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/David-J-Malan Threads: https://www.threads.net/@davidjmalan TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@davidjmalan Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidjmalan *** CS50 SHOP https://cs50.harvardshop.com/ *** LICENSE CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ David J. Malan https://cs.harvard.edu/malan malan@harvard.edu