Last Wednesday, several global government websites temporarily went offline following an alarm set off by the National Security Agency and its counterparts in the European Union and the United Kingdom. All three organizations announced major vulnerabilities in PHP, the computer scripting language used by about 70 percent of websites globally. Ryan Austin, a researcher at the cybersecurity company Calif, had used artificial intelligence tools to discover a way for hackers to run code on a server that uses PHP without its operator knowing.
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