00:00Companies and governments worldwide rushed on Thursday, October 22, to patch critical
00:05flaws in the widely used PHP programming language.
00:09This as a cybersecurity company reported millions of hacking attempts after the vulnerabilities
00:13were disclosed.
00:15The push came after governments worldwide took websites offline as a precaution on Wednesday,
00:20while website operators scrambled to secure systems running the software.
00:24The emergency shutdowns of banking, airline, rail, tax, and government services from Tokyo
00:30to Helsinki showed how much public and corporate systems rely on the software.
00:35PHP developers released urgent fixes on Wednesday for vulnerabilities that had lurked in the
00:40software for years until they were uncovered using AI, urging users to update immediately.
