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Serious PHP flaws, rated 9.2, forced many government websites offline worldwide
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PHP is the coding language behind WordPress and Wikipedia, and two flaws rated 9.2 out of 10 for severity were found in it. Governments in Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, France and Germany took sites offline, as did Edinburgh, Bristol and Oxford councils in the UK. The US National Security Agency told organisations that can't patch straight away to take their systems offline.
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