On Sunday some malicious actors tried to install a back door into the PHP code library, a server-side programming language that powers 79% of sites on the internet, including Facebook and Wikipedia.

It seems Facebook wasn’t satisfied with merely building a virtual machine for PHP, HHVM, which compiles that language to C++ for faster execution. Facebook has now gone ahead and made a full-blown ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Facebook announced it is open-sourcing its Hack Codegen ...

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Not everyone agrees on what to call Barrett Brown. He has been dubbed a journalist, a hacktivist, a criminal ...