Urgent security fix issued for code vital to estimated 70% of all websites

Well, government websites in Europe, Asia and elsewhere going offline today in a mass outage after an urgent security fix was issued, affecting nearly 70% of all websites. These websites use a programming language known as PHP that runs on web servers, including WordPress, which is used for more than 40% of all websites. The team behind PHP feverishly issuing emergency security updates today to fix two critical vulnerabilities. And the UK's National Cyber Security Centre is urging all affected organizations to install the fix immediately, rating this security breach a 9.2 out of 10 in terms of danger, saying that if exploited, it could allow attackers to take over internet servers. Likewise, the FBI Cyber Division also urging potentially affected organizations and companies to immediately update affected PHP installations. OpenAI, for its part, claims their AI models actually helped researchers discover the flaws. The company believes that they identified the problems before hackers could take advantage. The NSA's Cyber Division, meanwhile, is imploring any organization impacted to take their sites offline until the vulnerabilities are fixed and the patches are installed.