Government cybersecurity website hit in global flaw

Key points

• Australia's Australian Signals Directorate says its website was among several Australian government sites affected by a critical flaw in PHP, a programming language that powers much of the internet. The agency urged organisations and individuals using PHP to review official guidance and apply security patches as they become available.
• Government websites in Europe and Asia went offline as a precaution after two critical vulnerabilities were disclosed, with reports that hackers were exploiting the flaws.
• Developers released urgent fixes, and the flaw was discovered using an artificial intelligence tool.