Name: I’m cold-blooded in these situations, says Czech “who saved the internet”
Uploaded: 2026-11-06T13:37:06+00:00
Channel: Martin Hladík
Description: The international media have dubbed Ondřej Surý “the man who saved the internet” and “the unsung hero of the internet”. After serious flaws were recently discovered in PHP, a code used in most websites, the Czech – an expert in the field – managed to create a patch for the problem before attackers got a

Photo: archive of Ondřej Surý

The international media have dubbed Ondřej Surý “the man who saved the internet” and “the unsung hero of the internet”. After serious flaws were recently discovered in PHP, a code used in most websites, the Czech – an expert in the field – managed to create a patch for the problem before attackers got a chance to do potentially enormous damage. I asked Surý what the specific risk to website operators had been.

“It was a RCE class of vulnerability, which means Remote Code Execution.

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Author: Ian Willoughby