UK working to identify exposure after global cyber-security warning
Source: BBC ·
Governments and companies are scrambling to protect their websites, as Amazon says it experienced attacks before the warning was made public.
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The UK government says it is working to actively identify and patch any potential exposure in its online services, after vulnerabilities were identified in the PHP programming language that underpins a significant number of the world's websites. Governments and some of the world's biggest companies, including Amazon, were scrambling to protect their systems on Thursday before hackers could exploit them. The flaws were first discovered by AI, after which governments and agencies urged websites to address them. Amazon was targeted in multiple attempts, which it said occurred before an embargo on the warning was lifted. It added that it was unclear how actors knew about the vulnerabilities. A UK government spokesperson urged "all organisations, private and public, large and small" to follow guidance to protect their systems. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), as well as its counterparts in the EU and Australia, earlier urged those who use PHP to apply the fixes. "Where…