Australian and foreign government websites impacted by decades old cyber flaw

Podcast: Radio National Breakfast · ABC Australia

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

Do you know what PHP is? The prolific back end software helps build a huge chunk of the internet, and developers have discovered two critical flaws that if exploited by hackers could be devastating. The software isn't just used by Wikipedia, and Wordpress sites, but also government websites from Australia, Japan, Canada and countries in Europe, who've all temporarily taken down impacted platforms. Ironically, one of the platforms impacted is the Australian Signals Directorate's cyber.gov.au website.