10/22/2026
You have probably heard about the massive PHP vulnerability that surfaced this week (https://www.nsa.gov/press-room/press-releases-statements/press-release-view/article/4630238/nsa-advisory-critical-patches-recommended-for-php-vulnerabilities/). All technical mumbo-jumbo aside, this is a really big deal that impacts upwards of 80% of the entire global Internet. A number of entities, data centers, and online services turned their systems off Tuesday night and Wednesday to prevent being hacked. I have seen a number of posts about the ills of using technology that could be hacked, like PHP. I assure you that no technology or system is beyond this type of breach so anytime we think we are safe just because we use X or Y, we are fooling ourselves. Don't play into the false sense of security that you are safe just because you have security software or a system that doesn't run PHP. Find a sense of security, as we do, in education, best practices, and determination to stay ahead of future challenges. My team at Your Web Pro was all over this incident, like we are for any threat that surfaces. We had all of our servers updated with the best early information before the public details were released and then fully patched within 2 hours of the official PHP updates. Legacy sites were already on hardened systems to be as safe as possible and the few sites found incompatible with this update have been addressed already. I am incredibly proud of my team at Your Web Pro for the quick and professional work they put into this security issue. We stand behind our motto, We Love Your Website. If you have any concerns or want to talk about the technical side of this, stop by our office for a cup of coffee and a real conversation with real people.
-Steven J. Carr
Your Web Pro LLC
FORT MEADE, Md. — PHP — short for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor — works on most major operating systems. It runs directly on web servers and can be added into HTML to create
