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The discovery and fixing of critical flaws in PHP, a major programming language, should be considered a boon for the cybersecurity industry, says Dave Lee for Bloomberg Opinion.

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Hackers attempted to exploit the PHP flaws impacting sites across the web days before they were patched, according to a report from Amazon Threat Intelligence. CJ Moses, Amazon chief information security officer, writes that the company's security team found a PHP2Shell exploit attempt on October 17th through a monitoring system designed to bait hackers, as

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The two vulnerabilities could allow attackers to take control of affected web servers without login credentials, potentially exposing data and disrupting services.

Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They’re now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.

International authorities have urged site administrators to immediately update software to prevent unauthorized access and potential data exposure.

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The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.

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Crucial vulnerabilities in the PHP language are so severe that global authorities have recommended websites temporarily go offline until it can be fixed.

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