Governments working to identify exposure after global cyber-security warning

The UK government says it is working to identify any potential exposure in its online services, after critical cyber-security flaws were identified in the PHP programming language that underpins a significant number of the world's websites. Governments and some of the world's biggest companies, including Amazon, are rushing to protect systems that use PHP before hackers can exploit the flaws. The flaws were first discovered by AI, after which governments urged anyone who uses PHP to address them. Amazon was targeted in multiple attempts, which it said occurred before an embargo on the warning was lifted. It added that it was unclear how actors knew about the vulnerabilities.