World leaders warn of security flaws found in PHP programming language

Artificial intelligence was used to pinpoint two vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, used by more than 70 percent of websites.Published On 22 Oct 202622 Oct 2026Authorities in Europe, Asia and other continents have temporarily taken some government websites offline to protect against newly discovered security vulnerabilities in a programming language used to power the vast majority of sites on the internet.On Wednesday, vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language prompted a rare public warning from the United States National Security Agency (NSA), which advised taking websites offline if they could not be updated immediately.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Scientists urge tighter AI controls to prevent global cyber riskslist 2 of 3Israeli ad-tech firm helped place spyware on Al Jazeera deviceslist 3 of 3How Israeli firm’s ‘zero-click’ malware attack poses global security riskend of list“Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities,” the NSA said in a social media post.In Germany, the Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modern...