Decades-old flaw in PHP discovered by Google, OpenAI AI tools forces government and public websites to go offline globally
Government portals, municipal networks and public institutions across Europe and other regions went offline on Wednesday (October 21) after researchers disclosed critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a foundational programming language that powers a vast portion of the global web. The disclosures prompted emergency responses from IT teams worldwide, with operators taking critical servers offline as a defensive shield to prevent malicious intrusions before security updates could be deployed.
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