eWeek has a new article posted today about the PHP Consortium and how they are set to tackles third-party application security.

Worried that the credibility of the PHP scripting language is being hurt by high-profile security flaws in third-party applications, an international group of coding experts is taking matters into their own hands.

The group, which includes Zend Engine developer Andi Gutmans, has formed the PHP Security Consortium with ambitious plans to promote secure programming practices among developers and set up a one-stop shop for documentation, tools and standards

They go on talking more about why the PHP Security Consortium was formed (code/security awareness, proper validation practices, potential system execution issues, etc). One of the things that has a potential for being quite useful to the entire community is the mention of the PHPSC issuing their own security alerts...

Thanks to PHP Magazine for the link.