Australian government agencies and businesses are scrambling to patch vulnerabilities in websites after artificial intelligence tools were used to uncover critical vulnerabilities in the programming language that runs in the majority of web servers around the world.
A spokesman for Cybersecurity Minister Tony Burke said that the National Office of Cyber Security was aware of the issue, which was first reported to officials on Wednesday, and that work was quickly being undertaken across government to patch the bug.
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