Many Governments Are Shutting Down and Updating Their Websites Due to "Security Gaps"
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A Czech state agency dealing with cybersecurity has warned the government that there are security weaknesses. The post Many governments are shutting down and updating their websites due to "security gaps" appeared first on in.gr.
The government office temporarily took its website offline at 7 p.m. Wednesday due to potential security risks. Administrators must ensure that fixes related to errors in the PHP programming language are made. It is not yet clear how long the outage will last.
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echo24.czThe National Office for Cyber and Information Security (NÚKIB) recommends that operators of websites or other services using the PHP programming language immediately update their software. The reason is two security flaws that could allow an attacker to remotely execute their own code on a compromised server without prior authorization.
Governments in Europe and other parts of the world shut down their websites on Wednesday due to newly discovered security flaws in the PHP programming language, Reuters reported. On Wednesday evening, the website of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic was also taken down as a precaution for about two hours to implement security fixes. A PHP update is available that eliminates the flaws. PHP developers have urged users to install i…
A security issue in a widely used programming language has led to temporary interruption of access to some European government websites.
Due to security flaws in the PHP language, the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic and the Hydrometeorological Institute have shut down their websites. Other governments in Europe and elsewhere in the world have done the same. The developers have already released an update and recommend downloading it immediately.
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