Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Prompt Governments and Institutions to Take Their Websites Offline and Issue Urgent Update

A critical security update has been released to address vulnerabilities in PHP, the widely used language on the internet, causing websites around the world to go down. Government bodies in several countries took some of their websites and services offline as a precaution, and the vulnerabilities were described as the most significant ever uncovered by artificial intelligence.

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• It is estimated that about 70% of websites on the internet use PHP.

  «Nearly 70% of the internet is estimated to use PHP»

  ABC News
• The French Ministry of the Interior announced that a number of government websites were placed under preventive maintenance after two serious vulnerabilities were discovered.

  «أعلنت وزارة الداخلية الفرنسية عن وضع عدد من المواقع الحكومية في حالة صيانة وقائية وإيقافها مؤقتا»

  RT عربي
• Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence, Evan Solomon, said some government websites were temporarily removed as a precaution against a security risk.

  «Some government websites have been taken down temporarily as a precaution against a security risk»

  Yahoo News Canada
• The BBC described the vulnerabilities as the most significant ever discovered by artificial intelligence.

  «have been described as the most significant ever found by AI»

  BBC
• Governments and institutions in several European countries shut down their websites on Wednesday after the vulnerabilities were disclosed.

  «اضطرت حكومات ومؤسسات في عدة دول أوروبية إلى إغلاق مواقعها الإلكترونية، الأربعاء»

  ايكونومي بلس

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