Australian government sites among those exposed to 'critical' software flaw
Australia's Signals Directorate reported outages on government websites, including cyber.gov.au, linked to a critical PHP software issue. Developers of PHP have identified two critical vulnerabilities and urged website operators to install an update. Government agencies in the Netherlands and Finland took sites offline as a precaution. Security experts warned the flaws could affect millions of servers, because PHP runs roughly 75 per cent of websites whose programming language can be identified. Attacks are emerging, and PHP users have been urged to apply patches as soon as they are released.