00:02You may have stumbled upon multiple websites under maintenance while scrolling online recently.
00:08That's because governments and companies have been shutting down or updating websites as they race to protect themselves from hacks
00:16after AI uncovered critical flaws in a programming language called PHP.
00:21Created in the early 1990s, it helps run about 70% of websites globally.
00:27PHP now stands for hypertext preprocessor, but it originally meant personal homepage.
00:33Programmers released a fixed Wednesday following similar calls from the US and China.
00:38The Japanese government has recommended to entities working with websites using PHP to apply security patches or temporary go-offline.
01:16Websites run by Japanese government agencies such as the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Ministry of Finance
01:23have been temporarily taken offline as a precaution.
01:26The incident highlights how AI models are able to spot cyber security flaws that have gone unnoticed for years.
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