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PHP obfuscation is a lightweight way to make code harder to read but it does not provide much protection against code exposure or reverse engineering. It is often attractive because it is free or low cost, but that can be risky as it typically only masks the code through substitution techniques and does not meaningfully change how the source code is protected.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! While laudable, I still think many will just allow everything rather than configure complex CI flows. Happy to be proved wrong.

ionCube Loader is the runtime partner to ionCube Encoder which actually runs your encoded files on deployment machines. One useful feature of the Loader is that it includes runtime compatibility support which allows existing encoded files to run on future PHP versions where technically possible. This capability helps software vendors adopt newer PHP releases with greater flexibility as they won’t always need to re-encode and redistribute code in order to support new PHP versions.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! A heap of something simple can cause a bit of a headache it seems.