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European government websites went offline due to two critical PHP programming flaws

PHP, a programming language behind a huge share of the web, has two critical flaws that Wiz, a cyber-security firm, says AI found after more than a decade unnoticed. Finland shut its government's public web services, and the Dutch cyber agency took its own site down.

By BriefTea Editorial · 21 October 2026 at 18:29

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