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The internet is having a very bad cybersecurity day
The internet is having a bad day, from a cybersecurity perspective. Government websites around the world went offline, Reuters reported, after AI discovered critical security vulnerabilities that impacted the programming language PHP. The issues were severe enough that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) advised organizations using PHP on their systems to either immediately update or take their systems offline until they could. But the PHP update wasn’t the only headache cybersecurity folks were facing on Wednesday.
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- TechCrunch · 21-Oct-2026