Government websites taken offline
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.