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What is the Dutch agency?
The Dutch cyber agency is the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of the Netherlands. Like Britain's NCSC, it advises organisations on online safety and helps coordinate responses to major cyber threats. It took its own website offline as a precaution following the discovery of the PHP vulnerabilities, highlighting the seriousness of the issue.
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