US spy agency urges urgent worldwide website updates after cybersecurity flaws exposed

By AFP
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) on Wednesday urged organizations to take websites offline if they cannot immediately fix two serious security flaws in PHP, a programming language behind a large share of the world’s websites.

The flaws “often provide a direct path to the server’s file system or database,” the agency said in a statement posted on X.

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