North Korean sites go dark while PHP flaw sparks global panic

North Korean government and state media websites have been offline for 24 hours following the disclosure of a major PHP vulnerability that left 70% of the world’s websites open to hackers. PHP, the scripting language powering these websites, was discovered to have a major bug that could allow hackers to execute code remotely. This discovery led to a global panic and resulted in companies and governments across the globe shutting down their sites as they attempt to fix the problem. Countries carrying out these shutdowns include the Netherlands, France, Finland, Denmark, Germany , Belgium , Australia , and North Korea.

Source: Protos