The White Screen of Death

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Published on Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:06:47 GMT Indexed on 2011/11/26 1:52 UTC
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A few days ago I was browsing a particular commerical web site, the site crashed and I encountered the "White Screen of Death". The detailed dump showed me what the site was using:
  • zend
  • MySql
  • PHP
  • Mage
  • Magento

Besides all this detailed information of use to a hacker, the copyright on Magento cited a date of 2009.  Does this means that out of date software was in use?

There is a more basic point - in your site please ensure that fatal errors are trapped and redirected to a page that gives away no information useful to a hacker. I suggest also that you provide a means for an administrator to simulate an error to check the error handling.


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