The cybersecurity field is currently on fire so I'm curious how that is being responded to here.

It'd be interesting if VGChartz ended up compromised. Would love to see the return of this fabled hacking incident from back a few years ago... I missed it the first time. :(

Here's me being somewhat concerned, because this site definitely shows some signs of using PHP, and I'm guessing it's probably running on a fairly aged stack, to put it nicely. I'd love to be proven wrong, of course.

I'm just glad there's not very valuable data any attackers could gain about me here.

I hope that’s a joke.

That's a lot of vulnerabilities, chief.

So the recent PHP thing was the more widespread one, but the trend has been going on for months.

It happened twice lol....

Our sysadmin updated the php on the site to a newer version that has the CVE fix back ported. The plan is to upgrade to the latest version, but he is worried stuff will break on the site. So work will need to be done behind the scenes before doing so.

The sysadmin implemented more security, so that is far less likely to happen again. 

Yeah, AI now really can find security bugs. That to all the people saying AI is useless: this is a real application and the rise is coming from that. That is because AI is finding bugs that sat undiscovered for years. The PHP one is over 20 years old. So software doesn't have more bugs, with AI we are just currently discover more. That will be beneficial in the long run, as software will have fewer bugs than ever, but in this phase of wild discovery it is crazy. I am only a developer, but this week I had a lot of overtime, because not only the PHP bugs, but a plethora of other stuff as well which all hit that week. I read so many CVEs, that were files on 2026-10-20.

nah I’m being dead serious… /s ;)