Factbox-Websites taken offline over PHP risks
Source: The Star
Published on: 2026-10-21 15:27
Oct 21 (Reuters) - Several government, school and hospital websites in Europe were taken offline on Wednesday as organizations rushed to protect themselves from two critical security flaws in PHP, a programming language that powers a large share of the internet. CERT-EU, the EU's cybersecurity response team, had warned that organizations unable to apply fixes in time should consider taking affected sites offline. PHP's developers said a set of new updates fixing two previously identified critical vulnerabilities was now live and strongly encouraged users to utilize them immediately. The Dutch government was among those that took sites offline as a precaution. Cloudflare said it was seeing early attacks emerging, while Australia's cyber agency said it was not aware of active exploitation. Here are some major websites and services reported offline: US NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY The ...
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