| Coffee Shop vs PHP? Posted by GBM at 15:55, 21st October 2026 |     |
Just wondered whether this affects the forum?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0lg3w5x2o
The Finnish government, Edinburgh council and the BBC are among those to have taken down sites and pages ahead of a software update to a programming language which underpins many online services.
Two critical vulnerabilities have been found with the PHP programming language, which is widely used across the internet. A fix was issued on Wednesday afternoon.
The flaws were discovered by AI, with cyber-security firm Wiz saying they were the "most severe vulnerabilities ever discovered" by the tech, which is reshaping the cyber landscape.
Multiple national cyber-security agencies have urged organisations to rapidly adopt the updates, or consider taking their websites offline.
Finland has temporarily shut down the government's public web services, while the Netherlands' cyber-security agency said it was taking its own website offline due to the vulnerabilities.
Meanwhile, Edinburgh council's website has become inaccessible, as well as the online homes for several BBC programmes including Doctor Who and The Traitors.
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| Re: Coffee Shop vs PHP? Posted by grahame at 16:17, 21st October 2026 | |
Just wondered whether this affects the forum?
At this moment of writing, I am not panicked, but our web space provider for the worker machine reports ...
Our control panel and website are temporarily offline
The PHP security team has announced an upcoming security release that fixes two critical vulnerabilities. The fixes are due on 21 October 2026 at 14:00 UTC.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have taken our control panel and marketing websites offline for 24 hours while we prepare and apply the updates.
Your hosted services are not affected by this shutdown. Only these websites are offline. We'll bring them back as soon as the fixes are in place.
You can read the PHP project's announcement here: php.net: Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release.
The PHP security team has announced an upcoming security release that fixes two critical vulnerabilities. The fixes are due on 21 October 2026 at 14:00 UTC.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have taken our control panel and marketing websites offline for 24 hours while we prepare and apply the updates.
Your hosted services are not affected by this shutdown. Only these websites are offline. We'll bring them back as soon as the fixes are in place.
You can read the PHP project's announcement here: php.net: Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release.
... and I am watching
