Lights go out as agencies change cyber underwear. Security protocol embargo busters publicly named and blamed for mayhem by PHP Foundation.
The NSW Minns government has sought to reassure the public over feared security gaps and exposed cyber backdoors on hundreds of state government websites after revelations that critical vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language were disclosed before fixes were available.
In a very, very messy day for government and corporate cyber response teams forced to scramble to patch hundreds of thousands of public and internal websites, it was revealed that the increasingly mainstreamed hand of artificial intelligence dug out the high-value vulnerabilities that triggered red alerts across the world’s cyber guardians and regulators.