On October 21, 2026, the PHP and Node.js projects released fixes for serious vulnerabilities, including “php2shell” (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), a remote code execution flaw in PHP. These are industry-wide issues affecting a large share of the web. Our response. We opened our response the same day and worked from an…

Alarmist articles on Skype security risks for telehealth abound. The question is whether using Skype for telehealth really poses that serious of a security problem? Psychiatric Times weighed in on the issue with a well-cited article Telepsychiatry: The Perils of Using Skype, co-authored by the executive director of the TeleMental Health Institute, Marlene…