Why governments pulled websites offline over the decades-old PHP programming language
Servers that use the popular PHP programming language were exposed to a critical security bug.
CNBC reports: Servers that use the popular PHP programming language were exposed to a critical security bug.
Millions of websites have their data at risk.
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