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What’s going on with the web? The PHP issue and sites going offline

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Briefings

A significant number of websites have gone offline due to a deliberate decision by site owners, not service outages. The root cause is extremely dangerous security vulnerabilities found in PHP, a protocol used by most websites. This issue is unrelated to the separate vulnerability discovered in web certificates.

Key points

• Websites have gone offline because owners deliberately disabled them after finding dangerous security vulnerabilities in PHP.
• The vulnerability in PHP is unrelated to the separate vulnerability discovered in web certificates.

Context

This briefing addresses the sudden shutdown of numerous websites caused by a deliberate security decision in the PHP protocol, distinct from certificate vulnerabilities.

Limitations

Evidence is limited to the article's claim of widespread offline sites; specific dates, affected site counts, or technical details of the PHP vulnerability are not provided.

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