Government websites taken offline

Key points

• Australian government websites, including the cyber defence portal cyber.gov.au, were taken offline after serious vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a widely used web scripting engine. The Australian Signals Directorate says some organisations took sites down as a precaution and there is no sign the sites were affected.
• NSW Minister for Digital Government Jihad Dib said some NSW government sites were temporarily taken down while patches are applied. No government agencies have reported data breaches.
• OpenAI said an AI model identified the flaw and warned that similar findings could rise sharply.