Some websites temporarily offline as they scramble to make PHP security updates

This morning a security hole in the software running most of the world's websites has set off a security scramble. The problem is in what's called PHP, the free code that runs up to 70% of all websites. This is an incredibly significant and critical flaw. An artificial intelligence model found the security flaw, which could allow hackers to take over a website. The discovery was kept secret for months while volunteers who maintain the code built an emergency security patch. Governments and institutions around the world including Wikipedia, took some of their systems offline as a precaution. Amazon last night warned the security flaw is now being broadly exploited in the wild, with bad actors able to target sites that haven't installed the security patch yet. Vulnerabilities are going to continue to come at high velocity over the next several years. This is going to be the new normal. I think we have to use AI to defend against AI. Meanwhile, data security is in the spotlight in a separate case. A judge in New Mexico has ordered Facebook parent company Meta to pay the state $25 billion. After a jury found Facebook misled users during a 2018 scandal when the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica harvested data from millions of Facebook accounts without consent. It's the biggest penalty ever against Meta, nearly half of what the company earned last year. Meta says the ruling makes it all but impossible to do business in the state of New Mexico. The state's attorney general responding. Well, it makes it impossible for people that aren't able to tell the truth, like Mark Zuckerberg and Meta. When they make representations, they need to stand behind it. Hannah Bata, ABC News, New York.