I'm a total newbie with Ruby, but I thought I'd use it to try and reclaim the data from my ancient PHP based photo site. That site used PHP serialization to store data in the filesystem like this ...

The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem ...

WordPress CMS installations are vulnerable to a PHP bug related to data unserialization (also known as deserialization), a security researcher has revealed at the start of the month.