Govt websites, key services across the globe go dark as ‘critical’ PHP weaknesses exposed

News24 Business21 October 2026 at 16:56

Developers of the PHP programming language have said that a set of updates fixing two critical vulnerabilities is now live, and they strongly encourage users to update their sites immediately.
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