The Guardian
Minister attributes 32 government service outages to PHP flaw
A minister said 32 government services were offline because of a flaw in PHP code. Organisations worldwide are rushing to fix a critical security vulnerability in the programming language, which the report says is used by the majority of websites.
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What to know
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A minister said a PHP code flaw had left 32 government services offline.
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Organisations worldwide are urgently addressing a critical PHP vulnerability; the language is used by most websites.
Why it matters
The report concerns government service availability and the security of a programming language used by most websites.
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