Emergency patching is underway after two vulnerabilities exposed systems worldwide to attacks that could allow hackers to run code on servers without logging in. Nepal’s government has temporarily...
Emergency patching is underway after two vulnerabilities exposed systems worldwide to attacks that could allow hackers to run code on servers without logging in.
Nepal’s government has temporarily taken its online systems offline to address two critical security flaws in PHP, a programming language used by nearly 70 percent of websites whose underlying technology can be identified.
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Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.
Governments and businesses around the globe are scrambling to contain the fallout after the PHP vulnerabilities leaked online.
Emergency patching is underway after two vulnerabilities exposed systems worldwide to attacks that could allow hackers to run code on servers without logging in.
Cloudflare saw millions of attempts to exploit two critical PHP flaws within hours of their disclosure, CEO Matthew Prince said.
The list of sites that had to go down, at least temporarily, because of the recently disclosed PHP vulnerability keeps growing. Thankfully, the Internet Archive’s ops team quickly got things patched, secured, and back online. Digital librarian Brewster Kahle posted his thanks on Mastodon last night: “Given the severity, there are heroes in many many orgs from last night. Could have been no lights, no traffic signals, real problems.“
The fallout from a critical security flaw in website worldwide continues with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella saying he had not seen a problem this big for years. Follow live updates.
