Governments take websites offline after decades-old PHP flaw is found

Reports say government sites in several countries, including the UK and Australia, went offline after a decades-old vulnerability in the PHP programming language was revealed. Coverage varies on scale, and outages were reportedly prompted by patching efforts.

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1. 22 Oct, 12:35 UTCCNBC explains government shutdowns over PHP bug

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• Why governments pulled websites offline over the decades-old PHP programming languageCNBC