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CYBER SECURITY

Code at the centre of cyber alert seen on more than 40% of UK council websites surveyed

The PHP code at the centre of critical global cyber-security website flaws across the world was visible on more than 40% of the UK council websites surveyed last week.

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The PHP code at the centre of critical global cyber-security website flaws across the world was visible on more than 40% of the UK council websites surveyed last week.

Organisations' websites across the world were taken down, including those of several UK councils, when two critical vulnerabilities in the open source programming language were highlighted. 

Ann McGauran

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