PHP: What is it and why did it spark a global cyber security scramble?

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ByOsmond Chia

Business reporter

Updated 17 minutes ago

For more than a decade, serious flaws had gone undetected in the technology underpinning much of the internet.

It took artificial intelligence (AI) to bring them to light and caused a global cyber-security alert.

The vulnerabilities lie within a programming language called PHP, which has been used internationally since the 2000s to build websites.

Governments and cyber-security agencies around the world scrambled to contain the fallout of this…