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Websites worldwide go offline after two serious flaws found in PHP

Websites worldwide go offline after two serious flaws found in PHP

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Wiz, a cyber-security firm, reports that AI identified two vulnerabilities, present for over ten years without detection, impacting "roughly 70%" of the internet. Finland shut its public government web services, the Dutch cyber agency took its own site down, and Wikipedia's owner pulled some systems. Britain's National Cyber Security Centre, the government's online-safety agency, said organisations unable to fix the problem should consider going offline.

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