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Websites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued

Tech | 2026-10-21 at 19:54 UTC | Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The vulnerabilities with PHP, a programming language widely used across the internet, have been described as the most significant ever found by AI.
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