PHP Foundation ‘under-funded’ with one full-time staff member, director says

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM, Oct 23 (Reuters) The discovery of two serious flaws in PHP this week set off a global scramble to keep websites safe from hackers, ​showing just how critical the three-decade-old open-source programming language ‌is to the internet. Yet the nonprofit foundation that supports PHP,  which may underpin up to 70% of sites globally, operates on a shoestring budget. “We have one full-time staff member (that s me) and 14 mostly part-time contractors,” Executive ‌Director ​Elizabeth Barron of the PHP Foundation ⁠said via email in an ⁠interview on Friday. Board members are unpaid volunteers, and funding comes from donations and grants. The foundation works with outside researchers and companies, including OpenAI and cybersecurity firms Wiz and ​Calif, to investigate security flaws and coordinate fixes, including Wednesday s patches. While Web security company Cloudflare has reported millions of hacking ⁠attempts, Barron said the foundation had ⁠no evidence hackers