‘I have not seen anything like this in a long, long time,’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as companies, governments rush to patch PHP flaws
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The newly disclosed PHP flaws are being exploited at scale within hours, putting countless websites and online services at risk of compromise.
As global corporations and government agencies scrambled to patch critical, newly uncovered vulnerabilities in PHP – the foundational programming language that powers a majority of the worldwide web – top technology executives, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, reacted to the unfolding crisis during an industry event in Germany this week. This comment came as security firms recorded millions of automated exploitation attempts within hours of the bug’s public disclosure.
PHP is a widely used server‑side programming language that underpins a large portion of the internet, so vulnerabilities in its core can affect many corporate and government web applications.
- •Release of official patches or updates from the PHP development team
- •Announcements from major companies and agencies about applying the fixes
- •Reports of any successful attacks or data breaches exploiting the PHP bugs