What to Know About Critical Online Vulnerability Threatening Many Websites

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DPG Media has decided to temporarily take a number of websites offline as a precaution, after American cybersecurity firm Cloudflare noted that companies are facing cyberattacks targeting vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language. Technical Director Dane Knecht reported this on social media platform X.

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Many popular websites have suddenly become much more vulnerable to hacking attacks. This is because the widely used programming language PHP appears to contain two serious vulnerabilities. As a result, it is much easier for hackers to find backdoors in websites and exploit them. What makes the vulnerability particularly serious is that there is no foolproof solution available. Therefore, Notubiz, a system used by a hundred municipalities for me…

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Cybersecurity firm Cloudflare observes that companies are facing the first cyberattacks targeting vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language. Technical Director Dane Knecht stated this on the social media platform X.

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The Federal Office for Information Security warns against a wave of cyber attacks due to an IT vulnerability.

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One website after another is going offline due to vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language. Criminals are said to have already started their first cyberattacks. It is a disaster, because 70 percent of the internet uses PHP. "This is huge."