World leaders warn of security flaws found in PHP programming language – Al Jazeera

World leaders warn of security flaws found in PHP programming language  Al Jazeera

AI was used to pinpoint two vulnerabilities in the PHP language, used by about 70 percent of websites. Artificial intelligence was used to pinpoint two vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, used by more than 70 percent of websites. Authorities in Europe, Asia and other continents have temporarily taken some government websites offline to protect against newly discovered security vulnerabilities in a programming language used to power the vast majority of sites on the internet. On Wednesday, vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language prompted a rare public warning from the United States National Security Agency (NSA), which advised taking websites offline if they could not be updated immediately. “Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities,” the NSA said in a social media post.

In Germany, the Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation said it took some websites offline as a preventative measure. France’s Ministry of the Interior deactivated the official websites for local administrative offices. Authorities in Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and the Czech Republic also said they had shut down websites to apply a security patch to close the PHP loophole. Even Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi posted on social media to warn about the PHP risk. Cybersecurity experts discovered the pair of