{"id":25586,"date":"2026-10-22T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/flaw-in-php-computer-language-leads-to-shutdown-of-websites-around-world\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T08:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:37:16","slug":"flaw-in-php-computer-language-leads-to-shutdown-of-websites-around-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/flaw-in-php-computer-language-leads-to-shutdown-of-websites-around-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Precautionary takedowns come as experts say bad actors could exploit vulnerability in language used by 70% of sites<\/p>\n<p>Websites around the globe have gone dark after a serious vulnerability was found in a computer language used to build much of the world wide web.<\/p>\n<p>Belgian, Dutch, Finnish, French and German sites were among those that governments took down temporarily as they scrambled to patch the critical weakness in PHP, a language used by almost <a href=\"https:\/\/w3techs.com\/technologies\/details\/pl-php\">70% of websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/oct\/21\/flaw-in-php-computer-language-leads-to-shutdown-of-websites-around-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7b2ac9acb1cb8d1678d58a8d278df37914456a10\/461_0_5417_4335\/master\/5417.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f3262289ef4e806a3e94a72dcc5581d6\" title=\"Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world\" \/>Precautionary takedowns come as experts say bad actors could exploit vulnerability in language used by 70% of sites<br \/>\nWebsites around the globe have gone dark after a serious vulnerability was found in a computer language used to build much of the world wide web.<br \/>\nBelgian, Dutch, Finnish, French and German sites were among those that governments took down temporarily as they scrambled to patch the critical weakness in PHP, a language used by almost 70% of websites. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precautionary takedowns come as experts say bad actors could exploit vulnerability in language used by 70% of sites Websites around the globe have gone dark after a serious vulnerability was found in a computer language used to build much of the world wide web. Belgian, Dutch, Finnish, French and German sites were among those that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/flaw-in-php-computer-language-leads-to-shutdown-of-websites-around-world\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}