France Also Takes Local Government Sites Offline Due to PHP Vulnerability
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But what is happening on the Internet's global network, in France as in many other countries? Taxes, Météo-France, some banks and all French prefectures, the authorities have disconnected urgently from official sites which are currently in maintenance. Two computer flaws targeting PHP are at the origin of this incident. It is a programming language used by about 70% of websites, or 22 million platforms. (International).
A flaw in the computer programming language (PHP) has led several sites to block their access in order to take no risk.
The websites of French local authorities have been temporarily taken offline due to vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language. According to the French Ministry of the Interior, this is a precautionary measure. The websites should come back online once the fix has been implemented.
Prefectures, taxes, Météo-France... Many sites were cut off this Wednesday after the discovery of two critical flaws in PHP, the flagship language of the web.
If you are using the Météo France app or are planning to visit their site to track the weather forecast at the moment, you should know that for the moment this is not possible. A major security flaw that has recently been discovered in PHP, a computer development language that is widely used to make Web sites work, they have preferred to shut down their different websites altogether.A situation that surprises us a lot and makes us wonder more an…
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