Panicked governments, massive cyberattacks in preparation, involvement of OpenAI… The day the Internet was urgently disconnected because of PHP

Millions of personal data potentially exposed, French ministries shutting down all their sites, the Japanese Prime Minister and the American intelligence agency NSA in panic... A large part of the global Internet was temporarily deactivated this Wednesday, October 21, due to the discovery, initially in the greatest of secrets, of gigantic vulnerabilities within the most used computer language on the planet. Thousands of sites are still inaccessible at the time of writing.

In France, the tax site, that of the Police Prefecture, Météo-France, the CNIL, Ademe, cybermalveillance.gouv, and almost all French prefectures have been put under maintenance, and for many continue to be inaccessible this Wednesday evening. “At the request of ANSSI, the Ministry of the Interior carried out preventive maintenance on all of its websites exposed to a vulnerability...