32 Government Services Down as PHP Cybersecurity Issue Detected
Officials say the outages are precautionary as the NCSC urges organisations to patch or take sites offline while fixes are applied.
- On Thursday, 32 UK government services were taken offline and 4 remain partially unavailable following discovery of a critical cyber-security vulnerability in PHP, which powers nearly 70 per cent of websites worldwide.
- Cybersecurity chiefs warned UK organisations on Wednesday of a 'critical security issue' in PHP, which allows attackers to remotely control web servers running the programming language used by nearly 70 per cent of websites.
- Tech minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra told the House of Lords the offline move was a 'precautionary measure,' adding it 'has largely resulted from precautionary measures taken to protect systems while security updates and mitigations are applied.'
- Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander reassured the public that next week's Budget remains secure despite the Office for Budget Responsibility taking its website offline as a precaution to apply security patches.
- Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare reported the flaw is 'now being broadly exploited in the wild,' prompting the National Cyber Security Centre to urge organisations to apply patches or take websites offline immediately.
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Dozens of government services in the United Kingdom are unavailable due to vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, the BBC reports. According to Technology Secretary Liz Lloyd, these are largely precautionary measures while necessary updates are being implemented.
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32 government services down as PHP cybersecurity issue detected
Several government services are offline and four are partially unavailable due to potential cybersecurity issues.
32 Government Systems Down in Cyber-Security Panic
Thirty-two government services are unavailable (and four are partially down) amid the PHP cyber security crisis. Tech Minister Baroness Lloyd has been updating the House of Lords on the coding attack – governments are taking down systems as a precaution after a set of AI agents uncovered a critical weakness in PHP code. No10 said…
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