Edinburgh Council Website Offline Amid Global Cyber Security Alert

NHS Scotland website down as major cyber-security flaws found on sites worldwide

Websites across the world – including in Scotland – have been taken down after critical cyber-security weaknesses were discovered

Edinburgh council website offline amid global cyber security alert

Two critical vulnerabilities with the PHP programming language are said to have been found

Websites around the world taken offline after AI finds ‘critical’ security flaw

The City of Edinburgh Council was among the organisations to take their websites offline, while pages for some BBC programmes were unavailable

Alert: Councils and businesses urged to act over critical website security flaws

Against a background of a security alert from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre it was reported that City of Edinburgh Council’s website was offline. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has urged organisations to act immediately after security fixes were released for two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, software used to run websites and […]

Edinburgh council website reported offline as NCSC issues PHP security warning

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has urged organisations to act immediately after security fixes were released for two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, software used to run websites and other online services. The flaws, identified as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, could under certain conditions allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code on a server running […]