Websites taken down worldwide as critical PHP cyber-security update issued

Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of

Cyber agency warns websites may go dark as PHP prepares critical fix reut.rs/4yWFh4t

Some government websites in Europe and elsewhere went offline on October 21 after vulnerabilities in PHP, a widely used programming language, were uncovered using AI. Raphael

Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP in some capacity.