Japan gov't sites partially suspended as patching of PHP flaws underway
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Some Japanese ministry webpages have been partially suspended as a preventive measure following the detection of vulnerabilities in t
On Thursday, MUFG Bank and JR West, major Japanese companies, initiated emergency system maintenance to address recently discovered security flaws in the widely-utilized PHP programming language. The bank warned that some of its services, including the online opening of investment trust accounts, would be temporarily unavailable. JR West reported that approximately 60 of its group websites had been suspended.
The vulnerabilities were identified with the help of artificial intelligence, and the issue was brought to light on Wednesday. Governments and businesses worldwide responded by halting websites out of fear that the flaws could be exploited for cyberattacks. According to a European research organization, PHP, which is primarily designed for server-side programming, is used by 69.3% of websites whose server-side language is known.
The PHP developer disclosed the discovery of two major vulnerabilities early on Wednesday. Patches were subsequently released to resolve the issues, marking a significant effort to secure the affected systems and websites.
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