If a malicious PHP file never appears in the Apache log is it safe to assume it never executed?

I’ve found a couple of suspicious-looking PHP files on my webserver obfuscated by a substantial block of eval. Ideally, I’d like to know what they do, but I’m struggling to decrypt them.
Everything else on the server matches my git repo, s… Continue reading If a malicious PHP file never appears in the Apache log is it safe to assume it never executed?

Do people even exist who actually vet all the updates to their open source software?

A year or so ago, I set up this system which, whenever Composer (that’s PHP’s packet/library update manager) fetched new updates to my few (but critically required) third-party libraries, created a copy of the Composer dir and opened up Wi… Continue reading Do people even exist who actually vet all the updates to their open source software?