UK working to identify exposure after global cyber-security warning
- The UK government says it is working to identify any potential exposure in its online services, after critical cyber-security flaws were identified in the PHP programming language that underpins a significant number of the world's websites.
- Governments and some of the world's biggest companies, including Amazon, are rushing to protect systems that use PHP before hackers can exploit the flaws.
- The flaws were first discovered by AI, after which governments urged anyone who uses PHP to address them.
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- The UK government says it is working to identify any potential exposure in its online services, after critical cyber-security flaws were identified in the PHP programming language that underpins a significant number of the world's websites.
- Governments and some of the world's biggest companies, including Amazon, are rushing to protect systems that use PHP before hackers can exploit the flaws.
- The flaws were first discovered by AI, after which governments urged anyone who uses PHP to address them.
Sources: BBC News