Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw found
Websites were taken offline after the developers of programming language PHP said "critical vulnerabilities" had been discovered.
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Websites were taken offline after the developers of programming language PHP said "critical vulnerabilities" had been discovered.
Servers that use the popular PHP programming language were exposed to a critical security bug. Millions of websites have their data at risk.
Government and corporate websites were shut down across the world overnight into Wednesday after cybersecurity firms used artificial intelligence to reveal critical flaws in widely used programming language PHP. PHP programmers on Wednesday released a patch fixing the vulnerability.
The vulnerabilities with PHP, a programming language widely used across the internet, have been described as the most significant ever found by AI.
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