What’s going on with the web? The PHP issue and sites going offline

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by 9to5Mac / 9to5Google at 22 Oct, 12:10 UTC

A significant number of websites have gone offline, and that’s not due to a service outage, but rather a deliberate decision by the site’s owners. The reason is because extremely dangerous security vulnerabilities have been found in a protocol used by most websites – PHP. This issue is unrelated to…