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Central banks monitoring global cyber security threat

Security agencies urge organisations to implement immediate updates or take systems offline

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Central banks are monitoring a global cyber security threat, as companies and governments race to patch critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language that powers websites.

PHP – originally an abbreviation of personal home page – contains two critical security flaws that have remained hidden for more than a decade, the PHP Foundation said on October 21. The vulnerabilities were discovered by a coalition of researchers at OpenAI and at US-based cyber security firms Calif and Wiz

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