Image source, Getty Images- Published22 October 2026, 05:38 BST
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.
