Websites go dark as AI exposes critical security flaws
Originally published by Citizen Digital — Read the original article →
Governments and companies around the world shut down websites as they raced Thursday to protect themselves from hacks after artificial intelligence uncovered critical flaws in a widely used programming language called PHP.
PHP helps run about 70 percent of the world’s websites — from online stores and news outlets to government services — according to Wiz Research, one of the cybersecurity firms that found the two flaws.
Created in the early 1990s, PHP originally stood for “personal home page” but now means “hypertext preprocessor” and sits underneath popular web design platforms.
