Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is ready to launch it’s first lunar mission which is unmanned. This is tentatively scheduled for 22nd of this month.

ISRO said “We have set October 22 as the tentative date for the launch of lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1. This launch was originally planned for April this year but was delayed due to technical problems.

With this, India would now join China and Japan which are running their own programs.

ISRO said that the program would be continued with another launch which is currently scheduled for 2012.

(IDG News Service) - PHP security guru Stefan Esser recently posted on some of the changes and important security issues that are likely to have significant effects for the everyday PHP coder (and user) with the release of the upcoming PHP 5.3.

Probably the simplest and most effective change that will come with PHP 5.3 is a modification to the way that $_REQUEST superglobal variables are handled. After several years of known vulnerability, it seems that the PHP developers are finally addressing one of the most risky elements of the scripting language.

For those who are unaware, the $_REQUEST superglobal variable in PHP is able to be called from anywhere in any PHP script, can not be overwritten/replaced by a user variable of the same name (though the contents can be changed) and is an associative array with the values passed via GET, POST and via cookie to the particular script ($_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE PHP superglobals).